Lomatium roseanum

Adobe lomatium

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1B.2

Adobe lomatium is a rare (CNPS 1B.2) California native perennial found in shrublands and lower montane conifer forest in gravelly, rocky openings at elevations of 1,463 to 2,255 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces yellow flowers with purple anthers in delicate umbel clusters. Growing with a low-spreading habit, the plant reaches 12 to 23 centimeters tall and features a spheric underground tuber. Its ternate-dissected leaves are clustered at the base, with tiny elliptic to oblanceolate segments 1 to 4.5 millimeters long ending in acute tips. The fruit is an oblong to round structure 6 to 8 millimeters long with thin wings and distinctive oil tubes.

Habitat: shrublands, lower montane conifer forest, gravelly, rocky openings

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: 1463-2255 m

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