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Agate Desertparsley (Lomatium cookii)

Description

This is a perennial herb growing 10 to 40 or 50 centimeters tall. The leaves are located around the base of the stem. They have blades up to 17 centimeters long which are intricately dissected into many small, narrow lobes. The inflorescence is an umbel bearing clusters of yellow flowers on several ascending branches. The fruit is roughly a centimeter long by half a centimeter wide and is lined with thick, corky wings.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum: Magnoliophyta

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Apiales

            • Family: Apiaceae

              • Genus: Lomatium