Synonyms: Other names: snowline springparsley Nomenclature: nivalis = of the snow Nativity / Invasiveness: Montana native plant
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Description
General: hairless or slightly rough-short-hairy perennial, 5-15 cm tall, from a stout taproot and branching base that tends to be clothed by the leaf bases from previous years.
Leaves: basal, numerous, stalked, with bluish coating, the blade 1.5-7 cm long and 0.5-2 cm wide, finely divided into 2's, some of the primary segments generally entire, the other primary segments generally only once divided.
Flowers: white, numerous in umbels. Main stalks naked, arising from the base, 5-15 cm long at maturity. Umbel compact and sometimes headlike, the 3-5 fertile rays 1-5 mm long. Involucre absent, involucel of linear to obovate, short-rough-hairy bractlets with green or dark midvein. Calyx teeth minute and short-rough-hairy, generally blunt, up to about 0.5 mm long.
April-July.
Fruits: ovoid-oblong, 3-6 mm long, the wings narrower than the body. Dorsal wings 3, similar to the lateral ones, or narrower.
Distribution
Open, often rocky places, from the foothills to above timber line in the mountains, in w. parts of MT. Also found in ID and NV.
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