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Desert Research Learning Center, Botany Program
Mostly aromatic herbs with hollow stems in the internodal regions. Leaves usually pinnate, sometimes palmate, alternate and spiral, with sheathing petioles. Inflorescence a simple or compound umbel, often with subtending involucral bracts. Flowers small, perfect, radial, calyx usually 5 reduced, distinct sepals, corolla of 5 distinct petals, 5 stamens emerging from a stylopodium, 2 connate carpels, the ovaries inferior with axile placentation. Fruits a schizocarp of mericarps, supported by carpophores upon splitting.
Species within checklist: Flora of the Southern Colorado Plateau Network
Aletes acaulis
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Aletes macdougalii
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Aletes sessiliflorus
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Apium graveolens
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Aulospermum purpureum
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Berula erecta
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Bowlesia incana
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Bupleurum lancifolium
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Bupleurum rotundifolium
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Cicuta douglasii
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Cicuta maculata
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Conioselinum scopulorum
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Conium maculatum
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Cymopterus acaulis
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Cymopterus breviradiatus
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Cymopterus bulbosus
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Cymopterus constancei
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Cymopterus fendleri
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Cymopterus glomeratus
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Cymopterus lemmonii
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Cymopterus montanus
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Cymopterus multinervatus
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Cymopterus newberryi
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Cymopterus purpurascens
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Cymopterus purpureus
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Daucus carota
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Daucus pusillus
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Harbouria trachypleura
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Ligusticum filicinum
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Ligusticum porteri
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Lomatium cous
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Lomatium dissectum
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Lomatium foeniculaceum
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Lomatium grayi
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Lomatium mohavense
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Lomatium nevadense
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Lomatium parryi
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Lomatium simplex
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Lomatium triternatum
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Osmorhiza chilensis
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Osmorhiza depauperata
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Oxypolis fendleri
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Pastinaca sativa
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Perideridia gairdneri
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Perideridia parishii
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Pseudocymopterus montanus
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Pteryxia petraea
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Sanicula marilandica
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Torilis arvensis
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Yabea microcarpa
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Development supported by National Science Foundation Grants (DBI 9983132, BRC 0237418, DBI 0743827, DBI 0847966)
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