Oreonana clementis

Clemens' mountain parsley

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Clemens' mountain parsley is a California native perennial found in southern Sierra Nevada Mountains on rocky ridges at elevations of 1,500 to 4,000 meters. Flowering from July to August, this plant produces delicate white flowers with purple anthers in small spherical umbels 1 to 3 centimeters wide. Growing as a compact gray-hairy plant just 3 to 8 centimeters tall, it develops spreading stems with distinctive leaf sheaths. Its leaves have bladeless sheaths 0.5 to 2 centimeters long and ovate blades with tiny segments 1 to 3 millimeters long, creating a fine, intricate foliage structure. The fruit is 3 to 4 millimeters long and nearly glabrous to slightly hairy.

Habitat: Rocky ridges

Bloom period: Jul-Aug

Elevation: 1500-4000 m

Bioregions: s SNH.

California counties: Fresno, Tulare, Inyo, Kern

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