Lomatium bradshawii |
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Bradshaw's biscuit-root, Bradshaw's desert-parsley, Bradshaw's lomatium |
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Habit | Glabrous, acaulescent perennial from a long, slender taproot, 2-6.5 dm. tall. |
Leaves | Leaves ternate-pinnately dissected into linear or filiform segments 3-10 mm. long and up to 1 mm. wide. |
Flowers | Inflorescence a compound umbel, the rays unequal, 4-13 mm. long; with usually only 2-5 fertile flowers; involucre wanting; bractlets of the involucel ternately or bi-ternately divided; calyx teeth obsolete, flowers yellow. |
Fruits | Fruit glabrous, 8-13 mm. long and 5-7 mm. wide, the corky-thickened lateral wings half as wide as and the same color as the body. |
Lomatium bradshawii |
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Flowering time | May-June |
Habitat | Wet meadows at low elevations. |
Distribution | Occurring west of the Cascades crest in Clark County in Washington; southwestern Washington to the Willamette Valley near Eugene, Oregon.
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Origin | Native |
Conservation status | Endangered in Washington (WANHP) |
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