Lomatium caruifolium

Alkali desertparsley

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Alkali desertparsley is a California native perennial found in dry, alkaline habitats at elevations between 100 to 1,500 meters. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces delicate yellow flowers with occasional purple tones in umbrella-like clusters with 6 to 15 rays. Growing 15 to 45 centimeters tall with a slender taproot and essentially stemless, it develops complex, finely dissected leaves up to 30 centimeters wide. Its intricate leaf blades are triangular-ovate, divided into multiple narrow linear segments 2 to 60 millimeters long that create an elegant, feathery appearance. The fruit is 6 to 13 millimeters long, ovate to obovate with narrow wings.

California counties: San Diego, Contra Costa, Monterey, Sonoma, San Luis Obispo, Calaveras, Fresno, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Merced, Kern, Santa Barbara, Alameda, Mendocino, Colusa, Lake, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Tulare, El Dorado, Tuolumne, Ventura, Solano, Amador, Glenn, Stanislaus, Tehama, Napa, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Shasta, Yuba, Santa Cruz, Placer, Mariposa

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