Lomatium nevadense

Nevada biscuitroot

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Nevada biscuitroot is a California native perennial found in desert and montane regions in rocky or open sites at elevations of 1,000 to 2,500 meters. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces white to cream-colored flowers in delicate umbels with 8 to 22 unequal rays. Growing 10 to 45 centimeters tall with a slender taproot that is occasionally swollen at the base, it forms a low, finely hairy plant with a grayish appearance. Its leaves are complex, with finely dissected blades 3.5 to 10 centimeters long, composed of narrow linear segments less than 3 millimeters wide that are densely packed and pointed. The fruit is 6 to 11 millimeters long, oblong to round, and can be densely hairy or nearly smooth.

California counties: San Bernardino, Modoc, Siskiyou, Tulare, Plumas, Alpine, Inyo, Mono, Lassen, Trinity, Los Angeles, Kern, Monterey, Sierra, El Dorado, Shasta, Placer, Calaveras, Tuolumne, Madera, Ventura

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