Lomatium hallii

Hall's lomatium

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Hall's lomatium is a native perennial found in the northwestern Klamath Ranges of Del Norte County on rocky bluffs or slopes at approximately 150 meters elevation. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces bright yellow flowers in compound umbels with 8 to 18 spreading rays. Growing 20 to 50 centimeters tall with a stout taproot and several branching stems, it develops a complex leaf structure with finely dissected segments. Its leaves are 5 to 15 centimeters long, oblong-ovate, intricately 3-pinnately divided into narrow linear to oblong segments that are 2 to 4 millimeters long. The fruit is an oblong-ovate structure 5 to 9 millimeters long with wings approximately half the width of its body.

Habitat: Rocky bluffs or slopes

Bloom period: May-Aug

Elevation: +- 150 m.

Bioregions: nw KR (Del Norte Co.)

California counties: Del Norte, Sonoma, Modoc, Shasta

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