Sanicula graveolensPoepp. ex DC.

northern sanicle

WFO wfo-0000435178 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Sanicula graveolens, photographed by Garth Harwood
fig. a Garth Harwood, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-29 / obs. 203621028
Sanicula graveolens, photographed by Braden J. Judson
fig. b Braden J. Judson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 196885816
Sanicula graveolens, photographed by Shane Johnson
fig. c Shane Johnson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190865247
Sanicula graveolens, photographed by Shane Johnson
fig. d Shane Johnson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190864890
Sanicula graveolens, photographed by Braden J. Judson
fig. e Braden J. Judson, CC0 1.0 / obs. 184759615
Sanicula graveolens, photographed by Nicolas Olejnik
fig. f Nicolas Olejnik, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168369116
Sanicula graveolens, photographed by Cesar Ormazabal
fig. g Cesar Ormazabal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168259869
Sanicula graveolens, photographed by Cesar Ormazabal
fig. h Cesar Ormazabal, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168259848

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Sanicula graveolens is native: British Columbia, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Chile Central, Chile South British ColumbiaCaliforniaIdahoMontanaNevadaOregonWashingtonWyomingArgentina NorthwestArgentina SouthChile CentralChile South
Native distribution of Sanicula graveolens, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
British Columbia BRC NORTHERN AMERICA
California CAL
Idaho IDA
Montana MNT
Nevada NEV
Oregon ORE
Washington WAS
Wyoming WYO
Argentina Northwest AGW SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina South AGS
Chile Central CLC
Chile South CLS

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 98 in flower of 111 examined

Peak flowering in Oct. Each bar is the share of Sanicula graveolens observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 98 of 111 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 13 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 apiifolia Greene
  • Sanicula bipinnatifida var. nemoralis (Greene) Jeps.
  • Sanicula chilensis Bertero ex Colla
  • Sanicula divaricata Greene
  • Sanicula graveolens var. septentrionalis (Greene) H.St.John
  • Sanicula macrorhiza Colla
  • Sanicula macrorrhiza var. andina F.Meigen
  • Sanicula nemoralis Greene
  • Sanicula nevadensis S.Watson
  • Sanicula nevadensis var. glauca Jeps.
  • Sanicula nevadensis var. septentrionalis (Greene) Mathias
  • Sanicula septentrionalis Greene
  • Sanicula septentrionalis var. nemoralis (Greene) Jeps.

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.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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