Lomatium nudicaule
Barestem Lomatium
Family: Apiaceae (Carrot family)
Photo taken at Anderson Canyon, dry slope, open area with few trees
© 2008 Thayne Tuason
Flowers:
umbells compound; corolla yellow
Leaves:
glabrous and often glaucous, firm; ternately or ternate-pinnately 1 to 3 times compound, with 3 to 30 well defined, often petiolate ultimate leaflets; leaflets shallowly toothed, lobed near tip, or entire, lanceolate to ovate in shape, 1.5 to 9 cm long by 1 to 6 cm wide
Plant:
perennial; easily distinguished from other Lomatium species in this area by the large terminal, more or less entire leaflets. The stems were eaten raw or cooked by the Okanagon, Yakama, and Thompson. The fresh or dried leaves were used as a spice, and the flowers, leaves, stems, and green fruits were used to make tea by the Okanagon. Seeds were used as insect repellent, perfume and medicine by the Yakama.
Habitat:
dry, open to sparsely wooded places, lowlands to mid elevations, often found in association with sagebrush or ponderosa pine
Distribution of species:
both sides of the Cascades, southern British Columbia to central California, east to Idaho and western Utah
Distribution of genus:
more or less 75 species: central and southern North America
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