Lomatium bicolor var. leptocarpum

Slender fruited lomatium

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Slender fruited lomatium is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northeastern California Mountains, and North Coast Ranges in sagebrush scrub and drying adobe slopes at elevations of 1,000 to 2,250 meters. Flowering from April to May, this plant produces delicate yellow flowers in umbels with 4 to 15 rays, creating a soft, open cluster. Growing 20 to 50 centimeters tall with a minimal stem or occasionally a short stem, it develops from a taproot that may occasionally produce deep-seated tubers. Its large leaves are widely obovate and ternate-pinnately dissected, with linear segments 1 to 3 centimeters long, creating a feathery, intricate foliage pattern. The fruit is a slender, glabrous linear to oblong structure 8 to 17 millimeters long with narrow wings less than half the body width.

Habitat: Drying adobe, sagebrush scrub, slopes

Bloom period: Apr-May

Elevation: 1000-2250 m

Bioregions: KR, CaRH, MP

California counties: Modoc, Lassen, Shasta, Siskiyou

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