Tauschia arguta

Southern tauschia

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Southern tauschia is a California native perennial found in the southern Coast Ranges and southwestern California in chaparral and woodland habitats at elevations of 100 to 1,500 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces yellow flowers in delicate, spreading clusters with unequal rays extending 2 to 12 centimeters. Growing 3 to 7 decimeters tall with stems generally taller than its leaves, it has a distinctively glabrous appearance. Its leaves feature a large petiole up to 20 centimeters long, with complex pinnate blades 8 to 16 centimeters long containing 3 to 8 sharply dentate leaflets. The fruit is an oblong structure 6 to 9 millimeters long with acute, prominent ribs and 3 to 5 oil tubes between each rib interval.

Habitat: Chaparral, woodland

Bloom period: Apr-Jun

Elevation: 100-1500 m

Bioregions: SCoRO, SW

California counties: Ventura, Los Angeles, San Diego, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Imperial

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