Lomatium tracyi

Tracy's lomatium, Tracy's Lomatium

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.3

Tracy's lomatium is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, and Cascade Range highlands in open pine forests on serpentine at elevations of 500 to 1,500 meters. Flowering from May to June, this plant produces bright yellow flowers in delicate umbels with 6 to 12 rays. Growing 10 to 35 centimeters tall with a slender taproot and nearly stemless habit, it has finely divided leaves with thread-like to oblong segments that often overlap. Its leaves are complex, with a 2.5 to 8 centimeter petiole and a blade 4.5 to 10 centimeters long that is ternate-pinnately or twice-pinnately dissected into narrow segments 1 to 7 millimeters long. The fruit is a glabrous, oblong-ovate structure 6 to 10 millimeters long with narrow wings.

Habitat: Open pine forest, on serpentine

Bloom period: May-Jun

Elevation: 500-1500 m

Bioregions: KR, n NCoR, CaRH.

California counties: Humboldt, Trinity, Lassen, Mendocino, Siskiyou, Shasta, Del Norte, Tehama

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