Twoleaf Springparsley

Cymopterus coulteri (M. E. Jones) Mathias, Ann. Mo Bot. Gard. 17: 382. 1930.
Rhysopterus Jonesii Coult. & Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 7: 186. 1900. Not Cymopterus Jonesii
Coult. & Rose, 1888. Cymopterus corrugalus var. Coulteri M. E. Jones, Contr. W. Bot. 12: 19. 1908. Cymopterus corrugatus var. scopulicola M. E. Jones, Contr. W. Bot. 14: 39. 1912. Phellopterus Jonesii Rydb. Fl. Rocky Mts. 619, 1064. 1917.
Plants acaulescent or subcaulescent with the development of a pseudoscape, 4—10 cm. high, glabrous; leaves ovate in general outline, excluding the petioles L.5— 4 cm. long, pinnate, the leaflets shallowly pinnately lobed, the lobes obtuse, 2-3-lobulate, apiculate, pallid, fleshy or coriaceous; peduncles usually slightly exceeding the leaves; involucre wanting; involucel of subscarious, purple, linear, entire bractlets, acute at the apex, usually exceeding the flowers; umbels subcompact, the rays several, unequal, 2-10 mm. long; flowers white; fruit ovoid-oblong, 5-7 mm. long, 3-4 mm. broad, the wings not constricted at the base, tapering gradually toward the apex, broader than the body, the dorsal wings 3, similar to the lateral; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals, 2 on the commissure; seed-face concave.
Type locality: Juab, Utah, 4000 feet, M. E. Jones 1691.
Distribution: Western Utah.