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Lomatium dasycarpum is a species of flowering plant in the carrot family known by the common name woollyfruit desertparsley. It is native to California and Baja California, where it widespread throughout many of the mountain ranges and valleys. This is a lightly hairy perennial herb up to about half a meter tall. The upright leaves emerge from the base of the plant, growing up to 24 centimeters long with blades divided into many small, narrow segments. The flower cluster is an umbel of hairy greenish or purplish flowers which yield woolly, flattened, disclike fruits up to 2 centimeters long.
Perennial herb
2 ft Tall
Yellow, Green, Purple
Spring
Full Sun
Very Low
Fast
Dry ridges
Chaparral, Foothill Woodland, Valley Grassland, Yellow Pine Forest
Butterflies and moths supported
1 confirmed and 3 likely
Anise Swallowtail
Papilio zelicaon
Indra Swallowtail
Papilio indra
Black Swallowtail
Papilio polyxenes