Ammoselinum giganteum

Desert sand-parsley

Family: Apiaceae · Type: annual · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 2B.1

Desert sand-parsley is a rare (CNPS 2B.1) California native annual found in the southern desert regions of Riverside County at an elevation of 152 meters in heavy soil under shrubs. Flowering from March to April, this plant produces small white flowers in delicate umbels with 4 to 8 rays. Growing 10 to 20 centimeters tall with slender stems, it develops a compact, low-spreading form. Its leaves have distinctive obovate blades with 4 to 13 millimeter linear segments that are glabrous or slightly roughened. The fruit is a small 3 to 5 millimeter oblong-ovate structure with corky, sharply scabrous ribs.

Habitat: Heavy soil under shrubs

Bloom period: Mar-Apr

Elevation: 152 m

Bioregions: DSon (Hayfield Lake, Riverside Co., 1922)

California counties: Riverside

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