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Lomatium cuspidatum
Also called Wenatchee Desert Parsley, Wenatchee Mountain Desert Parsley
Lomatium cuspidatum (Wenatchee desertparsley) is a perennial herb of the family Apiaceae, native to the U.S. state of Washington. It is found primarily on open rocky slopes in the Wenatchee Mountains, strongly associated with serpentine scree and soils.
Lomatium cuspidatum is endemic to serpentine regions (north Teanaway) of the Wenatchee Mountains in Washington State. It grows on seasonally dry sunny slopes composed mostly of small loose rocks (scree) and unstratified soils that are largely derived from serpentinite rock. Due to seasonal dryness, slope instability, and the unusual mineral composition of serpentine-related rocks, such slopes support a sparse and very restricted flora, including four species found only in this region (Lomatium cuspidatum, Chaenactis thompsonii, Oreocarya thompsonii, and Poa curtifolia). Several other plants are less narrowly restricted but are notably associated with serpentine soils and bedrock outcrops in the Wenatchee Mountains, including Polystichum lemmonii, Ivesia tweedyi, Androsace nivalis, Adiantum aleuticum, Aspidotis densa, Galium serpenticum, and Claytonia megarhiza.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lomatium cuspidatum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
