Sanicula: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora (BF)  and Flora of Alberta (FOA) leading to this genus. 

	NOT [plants with a bluish tinge; flowers in dense globose heads; bracts spiny] (FOA)
	foliage NOT spiny
	leaves palmate with 5-7 large leaflets; NOT [leaves pinnate, trifoliate, or simple]
	plants LACKING axillary bulblets
	inflorescence NOT bluish
	fruit covered with short, hooked spines

Umbelliferae: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora leading to this family.

	herbs; NOT [shrubs or trees]
	plants terrestrial or semiaquatic; NOT [plants aquatic, leaves submerged or floating]
	plants NOT with colored milky juice
	stems hollow
	plants with more than one normal leaf
	some or all leaves alternate; NOT [leaves opposite, whorled, or basal]
	leaves without stipules, or having glands; NOT [leaves with stipules]
	flowers in umbels
	flowers with two floral rings, and with each petal distinct from the others
	parts of flowers mostly in fives; NOT [parts of flowers in twos or fours]
	calyx regular; NOT [calyx irregular, some sepals smaller than others]
	stamens 10 or fewer; NOT [stamens usually more than 10]
	styles 2; NOT [styles 5]
	ovary inferior; NOT [ovary superior]