Lomatium dasycarpum subsp. tomentosum

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Wooly lomatium is a California native perennial found in the Central Valley, Sierra Nevada foothills, and northern California coastal ranges in grasslands, oak woodlands, and stony flats at elevations of 25 to 1,500 meters. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces delicate white flowers in umbels typical of the parsley family. Growing with finely divided, feathery green foliage reaching 30 to 50 centimeters tall, it develops from a slender taproot. Its leaves have finely dissected segments with deeply cut, lacy leaflets that emerge from a sheathing petiole base. The fruit is covered in dense woolly tomentum, with a body generally wider than its wings.

Habitat: Stony flats, grassland, oak woodland

Bloom period: Mar-May

Elevation: 25-1500 m

Bioregions: CaRF, SNF, GV.

California counties: Madera, Butte, Fresno, Kern, Tulare, Yolo, Mariposa, Stanislaus, San Diego, Tehama, Lake, Calaveras, Shasta, Sutter, Glenn, San Mateo, Colusa, Sonoma, Napa, Sacramento, Plumas, Solano, Tuolumne

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