Lomatium martindalei

Coast range lomatium, Coast Range Lomatium

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 2B.3

Coast range lomatium is a rare (CNPS 2B.3) California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges of Del Norte and Siskiyou counties in conifer forests, rocky meadows, and coastal bluffs at elevations of 240 to 3,000 meters. Flowering from May to June, this plant produces yellow flowers that fade with age, clustered in umbels with 3 to 15 rays spreading up to 8 centimeters long. Growing 15 to 40 centimeters tall with a stout, swollen carrot-like taproot and glabrous to slightly scabrous herbage, it has a short stem or sometimes no visible stem. Its leaves are 2.5 to 15 centimeters long, oblong to obovate, with 1 to 2 pinnate divisions featuring crowded leaflet segments 0.8 to 3 centimeters long that are generally obtuse and dentate or irregularly lobed. The fruit is 8 to 15 millimeters long, oblong to diamond-shaped with narrow wings, containing distinctive oil tubes along the ribs.

Habitat: Conifer forest, rocks, meadows, talus, pumice, coastal bluffs

Bloom period: May-Jun

Elevation: 240-3000 m

Bioregions: KR (Del Norte, Siskiyou cos.)

California counties: Humboldt, Del Norte, Siskiyou, Glenn

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