Common name:
Sanicle
Family:
Scientific name:
Sanicula europaea
Main flower color:
Range:
All across the UK, though often only locally abundant
Height:
Between 20 cm and 60 cm
Habitat:
Deciduous woodland, especially beech, and on calcareous soils
Flowers:
Pinkish in bud otherwise white, in small, compound umbels typically with three to four rays, subtended by pinnately lobed, leaf-like bracts, at the tip of hairless, reddish stems. Below the individual clusters are small bracteoles, undivided
Leaves:
Bright green, shiny, palmately deeply divided into between five and seven lobes, themselves also lobed, and lined with small teeth. Lower leaves have long stalks; upper leaves are smaller and less divided
Season:
May to August
Rarity:
★★★★★
