Lomatium utriculatum is a species of flowering plant in the carrot family known by the common name common lomatium or spring gold. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California, where it grows in many types of habitat including chaparral, and in the Sierra Nevada.
Description Lomatium utriculatum is a hairless to lightly hairy perennial herb growing up to tall from a slender taproot. The leaves are basal and also grow from the middle and upper sections of the stem, long on a stalk. Each leaf is generally divided and subdivided into many small linear lobes. Leaves higher on the stem have prominent sheaths. The inflorescence is a webbed umbel of yellow flowers with rays up to long, blooming from February to June and expanding to across while in fruit. The fruit is seedlike and long.
Range and habitat Lomatium utriculatum is native to western North America from British Columbia to California, where it grows in many types of habitat including chaparral, and in the Sierra Nevada. In Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia it is found most often west of the Cascade Mountain crest, unlike most Lomatium species, which grow in dry areas east of the Cascades.
Uses This plant was used as a food and medicinal remedy by many Native American groups,Ethnobotany Accessed 2022-06-26. some of whom ate the fresh leaves raw.
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Calflora Database: Lomatium utriculatum (Bladder parsnip, hog fennel) Jepson Manual eFlora (TJM2) treatment of Lomatium utriculatum USDA Plants Profile for Lomatium utriculatum (common lomatium) UC Photos gallery — Lomatium utriculatum