Ligusticum apiifolium

Celery leaved lovage

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Celery leaved lovage is a California native perennial found in northwestern California, excluding the northern Coast Ranges Interior, and the Central Coast in coastal meadows, scrub, and woodland at elevations below 1,850 meters. Flowering from June to July, this plant produces white flowers in compound umbels with 12 to 23 unequal rays. Growing 30 to 150 centimeters tall with erect stems, it develops a robust herbaceous form with multiple stems. Its large ternate-pinnate leaves are triangular-ovate, featuring deeply lobed leaflets 1.5 to 4.5 centimeters long with minutely scabrous margins. The fruit is a small 3 to 5 millimeter oblong structure with thread-like ribs and distinctive oil tubes between each rib interval.

Habitat: Coastal meadows, scrub or woodland

Bloom period: Jun-Jul

Elevation: < 1850 m

Bioregions: NW (exc NCoRI), CCo

California counties: Mendocino, San Mateo, Del Norte, Sonoma, Shasta, Marin, San Francisco, Humboldt, Plumas, Siskiyou, Trinity, Tehama, Napa, Alameda, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Sierra, Nevada, Lake

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