Bluntseed Sweetroot

Fruit tails here not well developed but attempting to show club like, blunt tip of fruit, as opposed to linear-fusiform or oblong fruit.

Umbels, pedicels and small flowers of Osmorhiza depauperata. Blurry but still helpful in identification.Petals are greenish-white. Flowers 3-6 per umbel, the pedicels widely spreading. Pedicel is inflated/dilated towards the end. Fruit is club-shaped.June 2, 2012, Salt Lake County, Utah, at approx. 5700 ft. elev., mountain brush community in the shade.

Osmorhiza depauperata Phil.Leaf petioles are often dilated and ciliate at base. Pedicels and umbel rays are widely divaricate (spreading all over the place).Widely distributed. Growing at this location at or near its lowest known elevation in Utah.June 2, 2012, Salt Lake County, Utah, at approx. 5700 ft. elev., mountain brush community in the shade and in the shadow of Mt. OlympusFruits become club-shaped.