turkey pea

(tuberous sanicle)
Sanicula tuberosa

Member of sanicles (genus Sanicula)
carrot family (family Apiaceae)
dicots (class Magnoliopsida)
yellow in flowering plants

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• plant 5–80 cm, slender
• leaf green, compound, ternate then 1–2-pinnate, glaucous, or ± purple; blade 2–13 cm, triangular to ovate, leaflets entire to deeply pinnately lobed, distal segment of main axis 1–5 mm wide
• peduncles 0.5–8.5 cm
• bracts fused, 6–10, 1–3 mm, < heads, oblong to lanceolate
• corolla yellow
• scattered

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Chris’s observations: 1 (research grade)

Locations:

• Santa Teresa CP

Months:

• Feb.: 1

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Not all sites include this taxon:

• Sanicula tuberosa → iNaturalist – Calflora – CalPhotos – Jepson eFlora
• not yet listed → FNA

Bay Area species: iNaturalist – Calflora