Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria

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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.

Plant type

Perennial herb

Size

2 ft Tall

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Color

Yellow, Green, Purple

Flowering season

Spring

Sun

Full Sun

Water

Very Low

Soil drainage

Fast

Site type

Dry ridges

Plant communities

Chaparral, Foothill Woodland, Valley Grassland, Yellow Pine Forest

Caterpillars
Butterflies

Butterflies and moths supported

1 confirmed and 3 likely

Confirmed Likely

Anise Swallowtail

Papilio zelicaon

Agonopterix oregonensis

Black Swallowtail

Papilio polyxenes