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Lomatium caruifolium
Alkali desertparsley is a small California wildflower in the carrot family that grows from a taproot and blooms in seasonally wet, alkaline grassland. It is a native plant for restoration and wild gardens rather than a common ornamental, and it needs wet winters and dry summers.
Lomatium caruifolium, known by the common name alkali desertparsley, is a species of flowering plant in the carrot family.
The perennial herb is endemic to California, in the Central Valley and the foothills of the Inner California Coast Ranges and Sierra Nevada.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lomatium caruifolium 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.
