Lomatium cuspidatum
Lomatium cuspidatum | |
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In flower with leaves emerging | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Apiales |
Family: | Apiaceae |
Genus: | Lomatium |
Species: | L. cuspidatum
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Binomial name | |
Lomatium cuspidatum (Math. & Const.)
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Lomatium cuspidatum (Wenatchee desertparsley)
Description
Plants are small, usually less than 20 cm (8 inches) tall. Foliage has a blue-gray to green color, and is held on thick fleshy stalks. Leaves are fleshy and are dissected into leaflets that have a sharp extended tip, referred to by the species name cuspidatum.[3] Flowers appear early in the growth season (May to June) and are held above the foliage in a compound umbel on thick fleshy stalks that arise from the base of the plant. The flowers are brownish purple to brownish red in color.[3]
Similar plants with yellow flowers and flatter leaflets that grow in the northern Wenatchee Mountains on non-serpentine soil are now classified as a distinct species Lomatium roneorum. [4]
Range and Ecology
Lomatium cuspidatum is
References
- ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Lomatium cuspidatum". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
- ^ Burke Herbarium Image Collection| http://biology.burke.washington.edu/herbarium/imagecollection/taxon.php?Taxon=Lomatium%20cuspidatum
- ^ a b c Hitchcock, C.L. and Cronquist, A. 2018. Flora of the Pacific Northwest, 2nd Edition, p. 654. University of Washington Press, Seattle.
- ^ Darrach, M.E. 2018. Lomatium roneorum (Apiaceae), a new species from the east slopes of the Cascade Mountains, Washington state. Phytoneuron 2018-78: 1–12.
- ^ a b Kruckeberg, A.R. 2002. Geology and Plant Life: The Effects of Landforms and Rock Types on Plants, University of Washington Press, Seattle.