Flora of the Hawaiian Islands
Dicotyledon Literature for Cryptotaenia canadensis
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999.
   Apiaceae -- The Parsley Family Bibliography
      Cryptotaenia canadensis

Common name(s): honewort
General Information
DistributionNative to North America and eastern Asia. In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Maui, Hawai`i.

Apiaceae - Cryptotaenia canadensis















Habit
Plants slender, 3-12 dm tall.
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.
Flowers
Rays 2-7, slender, stiffly ascending, 1-6 cm long, pedicels 2-10, ascending, 2-35 mm long.
Fruit
Fruit linear to ovoid-oblong, 3.5-8 mm long, 1-3 mm wide, mericarps readily separating.
Chromosomes
2n = 18, 20, 22.