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Wheeler's Angelica (Angelica wheeleri)

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Photo by Tony Frates; Bill Gray; Jennifer Poore; Jennifer Poore
Photo Courtesy of Utah Native Plant Society; Utah Division of Wildlife Resources; Sources: ESRI, USGS, NOAA; Photo Courtesy of Utah Rare Plant Program; Courtesy of: Utah Rare Plant Program

Wheeler's Angelica

Wheeler's Angelica (Angelica wheeleri)

Photo by Tony Frates; Bill Gray; Jennifer Poore; Jennifer Poore
Photo Courtesy of Utah Native Plant Society; Utah Division of Wildlife Resources; Sources: ESRI, USGS, NOAA; Photo Courtesy of Utah Rare Plant Program; Courtesy of: Utah Rare Plant Program

Angelica wheeleri

NatureServe conservation status

Global (G-rank): G2
State (S-rank): S2

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Phenology

Flowers between June to August

Species range

This species is a Northern Uplands-Southern Plateaus endemic to Utah, reported from Cache, Juab, Piute, Salt Lake, Sevier and Utah Counties. 

Habitat

Almost a wetland obligate. According to Utah Flora "Boggy or very wet areas often in riparian communities or in seeps and spring.

Threats or limiting factors

The riparian and wetland habitats required by this species are potentially impacted by urban development, stream channelization, water diversions and other watershed and stream alterations, recreation, grazing, climate change and invasion by exotic plant species.

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Multicellular organisms that are autotrophic or make complex carbohydrates from basic constituents. Most use photosynthesis.

Flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary

Multicellular organisms that develop from the fertilization of an egg by a sperm. Heterotrophic - obtain food by ingestion.

Have skulls and backbones.

Cold blooded, lay eggs on land

Have feathers and lay eggs

Invertebrates with an exoskeleton, jointed appendages, and segmented bodies

Animals having 3 pair of legs, 3 body sections, generally 1 or 2 pair of wings, 1 pair of antennae.

Soft bodied animals with an internal or external shell and a toothed tongue or radula. Have a mantle that lines and secretes the shell and a muscular foot that allows for movement.

Two hinged lateral shells and a wedged shaped "foot". Bivalves lack tentacles and a head.


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