Lomatium hendersonii

Henderson's lomatium

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 2B.3

Henderson's lomatium is a rare California native perennial ranked 2B.3 by CNPS, found in the Modoc Plateau in gravelly or rocky sagebrush flats at elevations of 1,400 to 2,300 meters. Flowering from March to June, this plant produces white flowers in delicate umbrella-like clusters with spreading rays. Growing with a low-spreading habit, reaching 10 to 30 centimeters tall, the plant emerges from a small ovoid tuber with shiny green, glabrous herbage. Its finely divided leaves are triangular-ovate with multiple pinnate segments, featuring tiny linear to oblong leaflets just 2 to 5 millimeters long. The fruit is a small elliptic to ovate structure approximately 5 millimeters long with narrow wings less than half the body width.

Habitat: Gravelly or rocky soil, sagebrush flats

Bloom period: Mar-Jun

Elevation: 1400-2300 m

Bioregions: MP

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