Sweet Cicely (Osmorhiza clayton)
Image ID: 2015/stv41
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Native
Family:
Apiaceae (Parsley)
Height: 1 to 2 ft.
Blooms: May to
June
Leaf Type:
divided
Bloom Size: 0.125 in. (typical)
Flower Description:
Flat or rounded clusters,
Regular blooms, 5 parts
Location: Stavich Bicycle Trail
Date: 5/17/2015
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Sweet Cicely may be
easily confused with:
- Eastern Hemlock-Parsley
Sweet cicely is a much smaller plant, with less showy flowers.
- Garlic Mustard
Sweet cicely has five petals; garlic mustard has four. Leave of sweet cicely is divided; garlic mustard is not.
- Honewort
Leaf of honewort is ovoid in three parts. Sweet cicely has a more intricate, fern-like leaf.
- Poison Hemlock
Poison hemlock is much larger than sweet cicely, and the stout, spotted stem is quite distinctive.
- Spotted Cowbane
Sweet cicely is a small plant with loosely clustered flowers
We started out as wildflowers from the bicycle trails of western Pennsylvania, but we've
grown!
Meyer, Joseph E. (1918). The Herbalist and Herb Doctor. Hammond, Ind.: Indiana Herb Gardens. 400 pp.
