Sanicula marilandicaL.

Maryland sanicle

WFO wfo-0001067707 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Sanicula marilandica, photographed by Mary Krieger
fig. a Mary Krieger, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 205036404
Sanicula marilandica, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. b Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201074512
Sanicula marilandica, photographed by Mary Krieger
fig. c Mary Krieger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201220110
Sanicula marilandica, photographed by Lynn Harper
fig. d Lynn Harper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 200297271
Sanicula marilandica, photographed by Mary Krieger
fig. e Mary Krieger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164767456
Sanicula marilandica, photographed by Mary Krieger
fig. f Mary Krieger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 164145287
Sanicula marilandica, photographed by Mary Krieger
fig. g Mary Krieger, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158480617
Sanicula marilandica, photographed by Ellyne Geurts
fig. h Ellyne Geurts, CC0 1.0 / obs. 166241642

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Native range 51 botanical countries

Regions where Sanicula marilandica is native: Alabama, Alberta, British Columbia, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Newfoundland, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Prince Edward I., Québec, Rhode I., Saskatchewan, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming AlabamaAlbertaBritish ColumbiaColoradoConnecticutFloridaGeorgiaIdahoIllinoisIndianaIowaKansasKentuckyLouisianaMaineManitobaMarylandMassachusettsMichiganMinnesotaMississippiMissouriMontanaNebraskaNew BrunswickNew HampshireNew JerseyNew MexicoNew YorkNewfoundlandNorth CarolinaNorth DakotaNova ScotiaOhioOntarioPennsylvaniaPrince Edward I.QuébecSaskatchewanSouth CarolinaSouth DakotaTennesseeVermontVirginiaWashingtonWest VirginiaWisconsinWyoming DelawareDistrict of ColumbiaRhode I.
Native distribution of Sanicula marilandica, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Alberta ABT
British Columbia BRC
Colorado COL
Connecticut CNT
Delaware DEL
District of Columbia WDC
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Idaho IDA
Illinois ILL
Indiana INI
Iowa IOW
Kansas KAN
Kentucky KTY
Louisiana LOU
Maine MAI
Manitoba MAN
Maryland MRY
Massachusetts MAS
Michigan MIC
Minnesota MIN
Mississippi MSI
Missouri MSO
Montana MNT
Nebraska NEB
New Brunswick NBR
New Hampshire NWH
New Jersey NWJ
New Mexico NWM
New York NWY
Newfoundland NFL
North Carolina NCA
North Dakota NDA
Nova Scotia NSC
Ohio OHI
Ontario ONT
Pennsylvania PEN
Prince Edward I. PEI
Québec QUE
Rhode I. RHO
Saskatchewan SAS
South Carolina SCA
South Dakota SDA
Tennessee TEN
Vermont VER
Virginia VRG
Washington WAS
West Virginia WVA
Wisconsin WIS
Wyoming WYO

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 139 in flower of 254 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Sanicula marilandica 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. 139 of 254 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 6 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 7 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.

  • Caucalis marilandica Crantz
  • Sanicula canadensis var. marilandica (L.) Hitchc.
  • Sanicula marilandica var. borealis Fernald
  • Sanicula marilandica var. marilandica
  • Sanicula marilandica var. petiolulata Fernald
  • Sanicula marylandica DC.
  • Triclinium marilandica Raf.

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.