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Lomatium canbyi
Also called Chucklusa, Salt And Pepper, Canby's Lomatium
Canby's biscuitroot is a small native perennial herb in the carrot family that forms low rosettes of bluish, finely divided leaves and white flower umbels on short stalks. It grows in dry sagebrush plateaus and barren flats, so it needs full sun, excellent drainage and very little water.
Lomatium canbyi is a species of flowering plant in the carrot family known by the common name Canby's biscuitroot (lúukš in the Sahaptin language and qeqíit in the Nez Perce language). It is native to the Pacific Northwest of the United States and northeast California, where it grows east of the Cascade ridge in sagebrush-covered plateau habitat and barren flats.
The Klamath and Modoc peoples use the roots of this plant as food.
California lomatium · Cous biscuitroot · Utah desertparsley · Desertparsley
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lomatium canbyi by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
