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Lomatium shevockii
Also called Owens Peak Lomatium
Owens Peak desertparsley is a rare, tiny perennial herb from the carrot family, known from only two sites on Owens Peak in the southern Sierra Nevada. It is a wild alpine plant of talus and wooded mountain slopes and is not commonly grown in gardens.
Lomatium shevockii is a rare species of flowering plant in the carrot family known by the common name Owens Peak desertparsley, or Owens Peak lomatium. It is endemic to Kern County, California, where it is known from only two occurrences at Owens Peak, one of the highest points of the Sierra Nevada. It is a plant of the talus and wooded slopes of the high mountains. This species was discovered in 1984 and first described to science in 1988.
This is a perennial herb growing no more than about 12 centimeters tall from a thin taproot. There is generally no stem, the leaves and inflorescence emerging at ground level. The waxy gray-green leaf blades are made up of several very small, sharp-toothed, fleshy segments. The inflorescence is a small umbel of tiny purple flowers.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lomatium shevockii 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.
