Cymopterus cinerarius

Gray springparsley

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Gray springparsley is a California native perennial found in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and eastern Sierra Nevada in rocky mountain slopes at elevations of 2,100 to 3,500 meters. Flowering from June to July, this plant produces white flowers in delicate umbels with conspicuous scarious-margined bracts. Growing as a small, compact perennial only 7 to 8 centimeters tall with a glaucous, minutely hairy appearance, it lacks a traditional stem. Its leaves are distinctive, with petioles 3 to 5 centimeters long and blades 1 to 2.5 centimeters wide, intricately 2-pinnately dissected into tiny segments 1 to 3 millimeters long. The fruit is a narrowly wedge-shaped structure approximately 6 millimeters long, with nearly equal ribs and narrow wings.

Habitat: Rocky mountain slopes

Bloom period: Jun-Jul

Elevation: 2100-3500 m

Bioregions: SNH, SNE

California counties: Mono, Inyo, Alpine, Tuolumne

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.