| Echinopanax herridum (Sm.) Decne. & Planch. | |||
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| Family | Araliaceae — APG family: Araliaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Oplopanax horridus (Sm.) Migq., Panax horridum Sm. | ||
| Common name | devil’s club | ||
| Description | Densely prickly shrub with long, decumbent, often entangled branches or stolons, densely spinose on stems and petioles; petioles up to 30 cm long; leaves cordate at base, deeply or shallowly 5-7-lobed, the lobes acute to caudate, serrate, with acute teeth and spiny on nerves beneath; inflorescence shorter than leaves, in umbels forming elongate raceme; berries scarlet. | ||
| Ecology | Forms nearly impenetrable thickets in moist woods. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. japonicus (Nakai) Hult. (E. japonicus Nakai). (See color section. ) |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.