| Dicotyledon | Literature for Cryptotaenia canadensis
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Apiaceae -- The Parsley Family | Bibliography |
| Cryptotaenia canadensis | |
Common name(s): honewort |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Native to North America and eastern Asia. In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Maui, Hawai`i. |
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| Habit |
Plants slender, 3-12 dm tall. |
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| Leaves |
Basal and lower cauline leaves ternately compound, deltate, 2-10 cm wide, the leaflets obovate to rhombic-obovate, margins doubly serrate, the teeth mucronate, apex obtuse to acuminate, base cuneate; upper cauline leaves reduced, the leaflets narrow, petioles usually longer than blades, 7-20 cm long. |
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| Flowers |
Rays 2-7, slender, stiffly ascending, 1-6 cm long, pedicels 2-10, ascending, 2-35 mm long. |
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| Fruit |
Fruit linear to ovoid-oblong, 3.5-8 mm long, 1-3 mm wide, mericarps readily separating. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 18, 20, 22. |
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