Lomatium marginatum

Butte desertparsley

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Butte desertparsley is a California native perennial found in rocky, open habitats at elevations of 1,000 to 1,500 meters. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces small yellow flowers in delicate umbrella-like clusters with 6 to 12 spreading rays. Growing 15 to 50 centimeters tall with a slender taproot and nearly stemless form, it has distinctive finely dissected leaves with thread-like segments. Its leaves are triangular to obovate, intricately cut into thin linear segments 0.5 to 8 centimeters long, with petioles typically purple-tinged and 3 to 8 centimeters in length. The fruit is narrowly ovate, 8 to 12 millimeters long with thin wings barely wider than the seed body.

California counties: Lake, Napa, Butte, Shasta, Fresno, San Joaquin, Tulare, San Benito, Tehama, Sutter, Mariposa, Yuba, Solano, El Dorado, Sacramento, Trinity, Colusa, Glenn, Calaveras, Siskiyou, Tuolumne, Modoc, Yolo, Sonoma

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