Vascular Plants of North Carolina
Account for Large Black-snakeroot + - Sanicula canadensis var. grandis   Fernald
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AuthorFernald
DistributionWeakley (2022) considers this taxon as uncommon in the Mountains and rare in the Piedmont. One website editor, Sorrie, recently reviewed specimens at the UNC-Chapel Hill herbarium. His tentative identifications, based on Fernald's 1940 paper in Rhodora, show that var. grandis occurs in Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Haywood, Henderson, Madison, Mitchell, and Watauga counties--all montane. A specimen from Forsyth County is equivocal. Specimen records will be mapped once annotation labels have been affixed and specimens digitized.

Ranges from IA to southern ONT and VT, south to OK, reportedly TX, AR, northeast AL, possibly north GA (equivocal), and northwest SC (Greenwood Co.).
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IdentificationAccording to measurements taken from NCU specimens, var. grandis leaflet length ranges from 5.5-13 cm long and 2.5-6 (-8) cm broad. The means are 8.5 cm and 3.5 cm, respectively. These measurement are from large leaflets of petioled leaves. The width of the mature fruiting triad ranges from 0.8-1.2 cm; mean 1.0.
Taxonomic CommentsThis variety was described by Fernald (1940) in Rhodora 42: 467.

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