Lomatium farinosum var. hambleniae (Lomatium hambleniae)
Hamblen's Lomatium

Family: Apiaceae [Umbelliferae] (Carrot family)

Photo taken in the Colockum Wildlife Area, growing in open sun, thin lithosol soils

The genus Lomatium, an endemic to North America, includes over 70 different species in the west. Many of the species are not constrained by the type-specimen ideology and display a variety of morphological differences. The population of L. hambleniae in which this specimen was photographed had reduced involucre bracts (1 or 2), and many plants did not have any bracts at all. This population may be confused with Lomatium ambiguum or Lomatium idahoense because of this.

Plant:

Roots eaten by the Yakama.