Lomatium canbyi

Canby's lomatium, Canby's Lomatium

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.3

Canby's lomatium is a California native perennial found in the high Cascade Range and Modoc Plateau in barren or rocky sagebrush steppe at elevations around 2,000 meters. Flowering from April to May, this plant produces delicate white flowers in umbrella-like clusters with 5 to 17 thin rays spreading up to 6 centimeters wide. Growing to 7 to 25 centimeters tall with no visible stem, it emerges from a small spherical tuber less than 4 centimeters wide. Its finely dissected leaves have conspicuous papery sheaths, with blades 1 to 9 centimeters long divided into narrow linear segments 1 to 5 millimeters long. The fruit is widely oblong, 6 to 13 millimeters long with thin, narrow wings and 1 to 3 oil tubes between its ribs.

Habitat: Barren or rocky places, sagebrush steppe

Bloom period: Apr-May

Elevation: 2000 m

Bioregions: CaRH, MP

California counties: Modoc, Lassen, Plumas

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