Lomatium engelmannii

Engelmann's lomatium, Engelmann's Lomatium

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.3

Engelmann's lomatium is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges in Siskiyou and Trinity counties, growing on serpentine slopes in conifer forest at elevations of 1,150 to 2,300 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces purple flowers in compound umbels with 2 to 12 rays spreading across 1 to 13 centimeters. Growing with a slender taproot and reaching 10 to 30 centimeters tall, the plant is glabrous to sparsely hairy. Its leaves are intricately dissected, with finely divided segments 1 to 15 millimeters long, forming delicate ternate to pinnate blades 2.5 to 20 centimeters in length. The fruit is an oblong-ovate structure 7 to 14 millimeters long, with wings extending about half the body width.

Habitat: Serpentine slopes in conifer forest

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 1150-2300 m

Bioregions: KR (Siskiyou, Trinity cos.)

California counties: Mendocino, Siskiyou, Trinity

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