Tauschia glauca

Glaucous tauschia

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Conservation status: CNPS 4.3

Glaucous tauschia is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges and northern Coast Ranges on gravelly, generally serpentine flats in conifer forest at elevations of 80 to 1,700 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces yellow flowers in delicate compound umbels with unequal rays 1 to 6 centimeters long. Growing 20 to 40 centimeters tall with nearly leafless stems, it has a distinctive glabrous appearance. Its complex leaves are 6 to 12 centimeters long, ovate to round, with 2-ternate or ternate-pinnate structure featuring 10 to 17 millimeter leaflets that are coarsely serrate or lobed. The small, rounded fruit is 2 to 3 millimeters long with thread-like ribs and 2 to 3 oil tubes per rib-interval.

Habitat: Gravelly, generally serpentine flats in conifer forest

Bloom period: Apr-Jun

Elevation: 80-1700 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoRO

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