Oreonana vestita

Woolly mountain-parsley

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 1B.3

Woolly mountain-parsley is a rare (CNPS 1B.3) California native perennial found in the Southern Granitic Bedrock and Southern Broken Rivers bioregions on ridge tops at elevations of 1,670 to 3,500 meters. Flowering from March to July, this plant produces yellow or maroon flowers in small hemispheric umbels nestled among its leaves. Growing with white-tomentose stems 4 to 15 centimeters tall, the plant forms a compact, low-growing cluster. Its leaves feature bladeless sheaths and delicate ovate to round blades with small oblong segments 3 to 10 millimeters long. The fruit is tomentose, measuring 5 to 6 millimeters long and 3 to 4 millimeters wide.

Habitat: Ridge tops

Bloom period: Mar-Jul

Elevation: 1670-3500 m

Bioregions: SnGb, SnBr.

California counties: Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Kern

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