Family: Apiaceae,
Parsley
Genus: Cymopterus
Description
General: Hairless or slightly rough-short-hairy perennial
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 3's, some of the secondary segments generally again
cleft, the ultimate segments numerous and crowded, small
and narrow.
 Flowers: greyish-white in umbels. Main stalks naked,
arising from the base, 5-25 cm long at maturity. Umbel
compact and sometimes headlike, the 3-5 fertile rays 1-17
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.
Flowering time: 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., c. and s.e. parts of MT. Also in
w. WY to c. ID, OR, and in n.e. NV and n. UT. |
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