Tauschia kelloggii

Kellogg's tauschia

Family: Apiaceae · Type: perennial · Native

Kellogg's tauschia is a California native perennial found in northwestern California, southern Cascade Range, northern Sierra Nevada, Sutter Buttes, northern Coast Ranges, and San Francisco Bay Area in scrub, chaparral, woodland, and conifer forest at elevations of 50 to 1,700 meters. Flowering from April to June, this plant produces delicate yellow flowers in complex umbels with 10 to 20 unequal rays extending up to 12 centimeters long. Growing with stems generally near ground level and reaching 20 to 70 centimeters tall, it develops a distinctive leafy structure with intricate foliage. Its leaves are large, 8 to 20 centimeters long, ovate to round, with 15 to 35 millimeter leaflets that are oblong to ovate and coarsely serrate, often irregularly cut or lobed. The fruit is small, approximately 3 to 5 millimeters round with threadlike ribs and two to three oil tubes in each rib interval.

Habitat: Scrub, chaparral, woodland, conifer forest

Bloom period: Apr-Jun

Elevation: 50-1700 m

Bioregions: NW, s CaR, n SN, ScV (Sutter Buttes), n CCo, SnFrB

California counties: San Mateo, Monterey, Placer, Humboldt, Marin, Yuba, Lake, Butte, Shasta, Tehama, Sutter, Trinity, San Benito, El Dorado, Del Norte, Mendocino, Sonoma, Siskiyou, Santa Clara, Sierra

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