Sanicula arctopoidesHook. & Arn.

Bear’s-foot Sanicle

WFO wfo-0001067975 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Sanicula arctopoides, photographed by Shane Johnson
fig. a Shane Johnson, CC0 1.0 / 2022-05-20 / obs. 199502699

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Flowering n = 742 observations

Flowering observations of Sanicula arctopoides by month
MonthObservations
Jan78
Feb201
Mar308
Apr129
May24
Jun0
Jul0
Aug0
Sep0
Oct1
Nov0
Dec1

Peak flowering in Mar, from 742 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 2 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Sanicula crassicaulis var. howellii (J.M.Coult. & Rose) Mathias
  • Sanicula howellii J.M.Coult. & Rose

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.