Lomatium peckianum

Peck's lomatium

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 2B.2

Peck's lomatium is a rare California native perennial ranked 2B.2 by CNPS, found in the Klamath Ranges in Siskiyou County within volcanic pine and oak woodlands at elevations of 800 to 1,800 meters. Flowering in May, this plant produces cream to lemon-yellow flowers in delicate umbrella-like clusters with spreading rays. Growing 1 to 4.5 decimeters tall with a slender, scabrous taproot and no visible stem, it has a distinctive glaucous appearance. Its complex leaves are broadly obovate, ternately or ternate-pinnately dissected with narrow linear to oblong segments 1 to 15 millimeters long, attached to straw-colored petioles less than 5 centimeters long. The fruit is an oblong-elliptic structure 8 to 14 millimeters long with several obscure oil tubes along its ribs.

Habitat: Volcanics, pine/oak woodland

Bloom period: May

Elevation: 800-1800 m

Bioregions: KR (Siskiyou Co.)

California counties: Siskiyou

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