Lomatium multifidum

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Lomatium multifidum is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, High Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, Tehachapi Mountains, southern California coastal areas, and Great Basin in shallow rocky soils and conifer forests at elevations of 600 to 3,000 meters. Flowering from April to July, this plant produces bright yellow flowers in compound umbels with 10 to 30 spreading rays 3 to 10 centimeters long. Growing 30 to 140 centimeters tall with a stout taproot and scarious basal sheaths, it develops glabrous to slightly puberulent stems. Its large triangular-ovate leaves are ternate-pinnately dissected into narrow linear-oblong segments 2 to 22 millimeters long, creating a delicate, lacy appearance. The fruit is an oblong-ovate structure 12 to 16 millimeters long with thick wings narrower than the seed body.

Habitat: Shallow rocky soils, wooded or brushy slopes, generally conifer forest

Bloom period: Apr-Jul

Elevation: 600-3000 m

Bioregions: KR, CaRH, SNH, Teh, SCo, SnGb, SnBr, GB

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