Lomatium foeniculaceum

Desert biscuitroot

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Desert biscuitroot is a California native perennial found in desert and montane regions at elevations of 100 to 2,000 meters. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces yellow to purple flowers in delicate umbels with 1 to 17 rays. Growing with taprooted stems 10 to 40 centimeters tall, it has a distinctively soft-hairy or tomentose appearance. Its finely dissected leaves are broadly oblong to obovate, with narrow linear segments 1 to 6 millimeters long, creating a delicate, lace-like foliage. The fruit is an oblong-ovate structure 4 to 12 millimeters long, typically hairy with wings approximately half the body width.

California counties: Inyo

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