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Osmorhiza longistylis (longstyle sweetroot; aniseroot)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Osmorhiza longistylis is a perennial herb of Eastern North America and the Rocky Mountains region. It is known as aniseroot, longstyle sweetroot, American sweet cicely, licorice root, wild anise, or simply sweet cicely, a name that applies to other members of its genus Osmorhiza generally.
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Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [2]  Evergreen
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Scent [1]  A sweetly aromatic plant.
Structure [2]  Herb
Height [1]  3.936 feet (1.2 m)
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Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Predators

Papilio polyxenes (Eastern black swallowtail)[3]
Ursus arctos (Grizzly Bear)[4]

Providers

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 4National Geographic Magazine - May 2016 - Yellowstone - The Carnivore Comeback
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0