Lomatium canbyi
Canby's Lomatium

Family: Apiaceae [Umbelliferae] (Carrot family)

Photo taken at Beezley Hills, open rocky hill tops and ridges, moist in spring then drying

Flowers:

petals white, anthers purple; bractlets of the involucel linear, 1.5 to 4 mm long, 0.1 to 0.5 mm wide, not fused at the base

Fruit:

6 to 13 mm long, 4 to 7.5 mm wide, wings 1 to 2 mm wide

Leaves:

petiole 4 to 6 cm, scarious pinkish-purple sheath conspicuous; blade 1 to 9 cm long, pinnately or ternately compound and pinnately-ternately dissected, ultimate segments 50 to 130 in number, 1 to 5 mm long, 0.5 to 1.3 mm wide

Plant:

perennial; acaulescent; 7 to 25 cm tall, glaberous to glaucous. The roots were eaten raw, boiled, or roasted in a pit, or they were dried and stored for later use by the Okanagan-Colville and Yakama.

Habitat:

often in sagebrush steppe and scablands in comparitively deeper soils

Distribution of species:

from Chelan, Kittitas, and Douglas counties south through east-central Washington, and eastern Oregon to northern California and Nevada

Distribution of genus:

more or less 75 species: central and western North America

More information about this plant:

Flora Northwest