Apiaceae
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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: West Fork of Oak Creek
Aletes macdougalii
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Cicuta douglasii
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Ligusticum porteri
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Osmorhiza berteroi
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Pastinaca sativa
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Pseudocymopterus montanus
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