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Lomatium papilioniferum
Also called Butterfly Lomatium, Butterfly Bearing Biscuit Root, Butterfly Bearing Lomatium, Pungent Desert Parsley
Butterfly Bearing Desert Parsley is a native perennial of dry sagebrush desert and lowland areas in western North America, growing from a deep taproot. It is a wild species rarely grown in gardens, and it needs dry, well-drained conditions with full sun.
Lomatium papilioniferum is a species of Lomatium previously included in the Lomatium grayi complex. It is native from southern British Columbia to northern California and east to Idaho and Nevada. It occurs in dry lowland areas including sagebrush desert.
Wyeth biscuitroot · Plumas lomatium · Wasatch desertparsley · Bradshaw's desertparsley · Brandegee's desertparsley · California lomatium · Canby's biscuitroot · Alkali desertparsley · Yolla Bolly biscuitroot · Purple leptotaenia · Mariposa desertparsley · Agate desertparsley
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lomatium papilioniferum 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.
