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Lomatium bradshawii

Bradshaw's biscuit-root, Bradshaw's desert-parsley, Bradshaw's lomatium

narrowfruit biscuit-root, short-leaved biscuit-root, short-leaved desert-parsley

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

Lomatium brevifolium

Flowering time May-June May-July
Habitat Wet meadows at low elevations. Balds, slopes, and forest openings, often where rocky, from the lowlands to subalpine.
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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Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest and in the Columbia River Gorge in Washington; north-central Washington to Hood River and Wasco counties in Oregon.
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Origin Native Native
Conservation status Endangered in Washington (WANHP) Not of concern
Sibling taxa
L. ambiguum, L. anomalum, L. brandegeei, L. brevifolium, L. canbyi, L. columbianum, L. cous, L. cuspidatum, L. dissectum, L. farinosum, L. geyeri, L. gormanii, L. klickitatense, L. knokei, L. laevigatum, L. leptocarpum, L. linearifolium, L. lithosolamans, L. macrocarpum, L. martindalei, L. multifidum, L. nudicaule, L. papilioniferum, L. piperi, L. quintuplex, L. rollinsii, L. roneorum, L. salmoniflorum, L. sandbergii, L. serpentinum, L. simplex, L. suksdorfii, L. tamanitchii, L. tenuissimum, L. thompsonii, L. triternatum, L. tuberosum, L. utriculatum, L. watsonii
L. ambiguum, L. anomalum, L. bradshawii, L. brandegeei, L. canbyi, L. columbianum, L. cous, L. cuspidatum, L. dissectum, L. farinosum, L. geyeri, L. gormanii, L. klickitatense, L. knokei, L. laevigatum, L. leptocarpum, L. linearifolium, L. lithosolamans, L. macrocarpum, L. martindalei, L. multifidum, L. nudicaule, L. papilioniferum, L. piperi, L. quintuplex, L. rollinsii, L. roneorum, L. salmoniflorum, L. sandbergii, L. serpentinum, L. simplex, L. suksdorfii, L. tamanitchii, L. tenuissimum, L. thompsonii, L. triternatum, L. tuberosum, L. utriculatum, L. watsonii
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