Lomatium dasycarpum subsp. dasycarpum

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Lomatium dasycarpum is a California native perennial herb found in northern coastal ranges, San Francisco Bay Area, southern coastal ranges, and Peninsular Ranges in rocky serpentine chaparral and woodland habitats at elevations below 1,600 meters. Flowering from March to June, this plant produces white flowers in delicate compound umbels. Growing with slender stems 20 to 50 centimeters tall, it develops a robust taproot system. Its finely divided leaves have multiple threadlike segments, with petioles that sheath partway up the stem. The fruit is sparsely hairy and narrower than its wings, with a distinctive compact form.

Habitat: Rocky (generally serpentine), chaparral, woodland

Bloom period: Mar-Jun

Elevation: < 1600 m

Bioregions: NCoR, SnFrB, SCoR, PR

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

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