Lomatium caruifolium (Hook. & Arn.) Coult. & Rose

Lomatium caruifolium (H. & A.) Coult. & Rose, Contr. U. S
Nat. Herb. 7: 216. 1900.
Ferula caruifolia H. & A. Bot. Beech. Voy. 348. 1838.
Peucedanum caruifolium T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 628. 1840.
Peucedanum californicum Nutt.; Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1: 628, as syn. 1840. Not P. cali-
fomicum Coult. & Rose. 1888. Cogswellia caruifolia M. E. Jones, Contr. W. Bot. 12: 34. 1908. Lomatium caruifolium var. solanense Jepson, Madrono 1: 151. 1924. Lomatium caruifolium var. erythropodum Jepson, Fl. Calif. 2: 638. 1936.
Plants acaulescent or short-caulescent, 1.5-4.5 dm. high, from a long slender taproot, glabrous to pubescent; leaves broadly ovate to obovate in general outline, excluding the petioles 5-30 cm. long, 1-3-ternate, or simply ternate, then bipinnate, the ultimate divisions linear, 2-17 mm. long, 1-3 mm. broad, apiculate; petioles 4—7 cm. long, wholly sheathing; peduncles exceeding the leaves; involucel of obovate, sessile or petiolulate, entire or toothed, usually obtuse, green to purplish, scarious-margined, prominently veined bractlets, equaling the flowers; rays 6-15, spreading to ascending, 1-13 cm. long, unequal; pedicels 2-8 (or 12) mm. long, the umbellets many-flowered; fruit narrowly ovate to obovate, 8-13 mm. long, 4—7 mm. broad, usually obtuse at base and apex, glabrous, the wings thickish, narrower than the body; oil-tubes obscure.
Type locality: California, Douglas.
Distribution: Coast Ranges, from Mendocino Count v to San Luis Obispo County, California