Cynosciadium digitatum DC.

Finger Dogshade

Herb

Annual

Vascular

Finger Dogshade is a native herbaceous annual in the Carrot family (Apiaceae). It can be found in the Black Belt region of central Alabama and in the Tennessee Valley of north Alabama. Finger Dogshade grows in swamps, in wet hardwood forests, and in roadside ditches. It is an annual with fascicled fibrous roots. The stem is upright, 2-3 feet in height, green in color, glabrous, and branched slightly to freely. Leaves are alternate, petiolate to sessile, and palmately compound with 3-5 leaflets. The segments of the leaf are linear or narrowly elliptic in outline and glabrous with conspicuous cross-partitions. Flowers are produced in terminal and axillary compound umbels. Each compound umbel has 4-8 smaller umbels each with 4-10 flowers. Each flower has 5 small white petals. The compound umbel is subtended by 3-5 involucral bracts divided into narrowly linear segments. The fruit is an ovoid, ribbed schizocarp with a short beak.—A. Diamond

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