Lomatium triternatum ssp. triternatum var. triternatum
Nine Leaf Lomatium

Family: Apiaceae [Umbelliferae] (Carrot family)

Photo taken at Icicle Canyon, dry rocky soil in partial shade

Flowers:

petals yellow; bractlets of the involucel linear-lanceolate, 1 to 5 mm long

Fruit:

narrow, wings usually less than half as wide as the fruit body

Leaves:

ternate-pinnately dissected; leaflets 1.5 to 20 cm long; ultimate leaf segments linear to widely lanceolate, acute at tips, entire

Plant:

perennial; caulescent; 1.5 to 4 dm tall. Flower and upper leaves dried and used to flavor meats, stews and salads by the Okanagan-Colville. Spring roots were eaten by the Montana Indians. Plant was used as food by the Yakama.

Habitat:

open slopes and meadows in dry to moist soil, lowlands to middle elevations

Distribution of species:

British Columbia to northwest Montana and central Idaho, south to northern California

Distribution of genus:

more or less 75 species: central and western North America

More information about this plant:

Flora Northwest