Tauschia hartwegii
Hartweg's tauschia
Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native
Hartweg's tauschia is a California native perennial found in northern California regions including the Sierra Nevada, Coast Ranges, and southern California coastal areas in chaparral and pine/oak woodland at elevations below 1,800 meters. Flowering from March to May, this plant produces yellow flowers in delicate compound umbels with unequal rays extending 2 to 12 centimeters long. Growing 30 to 100 centimeters tall with no distinct stem, it develops from a robust root system with distinctive foliage. Its large leaves are 12 to 24 centimeters long, deeply divided into 25 to 60 millimeter oblong to ovate leaflets that are coarsely serrate and often lobed. The fruits are approximately 4 to 7 millimeters round with thread-like ribs and distinctive oil tubes between the ribbed intervals.
Habitat: Chaparral, pine/oak woodland
Bloom period: Mar-May
Elevation: < 1800 m
Bioregions: NCoRI, CaRF, SNF, c&s SNH, ScV (Sutter Buttes), SnFrB, SCoR, SCo, WTR.
California counties: Los Angeles, Fresno, Kern, San Diego, Santa Clara, Alameda, San Luis Obispo, Sutter, Monterey, Tulare, Butte, Sacramento, Santa Barbara, Ventura, Nevada, Marin, Amador, Placer, Tehama, Shasta, Contra Costa, San Benito, Mariposa, El Dorado, Tuolumne, San Mateo, Santa Cruz
Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.