Lomatium dasycarpum

Hog fennel

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Hog fennel is a California native perennial herb found in dry, open habitats across various California bioregions at moderate elevations. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces green-white or pale purple flowers in delicate umbrella-like clusters with 10 to 21 spreading rays. Growing with ascending to erect stems 10 to 50 centimeters tall, it develops a robust taproot and is generally covered in dense short hairs. Its finely dissected leaves are 2 to 12 centimeters long, with thread-like to linear segments 2 to 6 millimeters long, creating a delicate, lacy appearance. The fruit is distinctively winged, 8 to 22 millimeters long, with wings wider than the fruit body.

California counties: Orange, San Diego, Kern, Los Angeles, Mendocino, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, Trinity, Lake, San Luis Obispo, Shasta, Napa, Sonoma, Santa Barbara, Colusa, Monterey, Marin, Contra Costa, Humboldt, Tehama, San Mateo, Stanislaus, Solano, San Benito, Siskiyou, San Francisco, Santa Clara, Glenn, Alameda, Santa Cruz, Yolo

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