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Tauschia hartwegii
Hartweg's umbrellawort is a perennial wildflower in the carrot family, native to California's Sierra Nevada foothills and Central Coast Ranges, where it grows in woodland and chaparral. It is best treated as a hardy native perennial that tolerates dry summers and suits a naturalistic or drought-tolerant garden.
Tauschia hartwegii is a species of flowering plant in the carrot family known by the common name Hartweg's umbrellawort. It is endemic to California, where it is known from the Sierra Nevada foothills and some of the Central Coast Ranges. Its habitat includes coniferous woodlands and chaparral. It is a perennial herb growing 30 centimeters to one meter tall. It is coated in short, rough hairs. The leaves have blades which are divided into oval leaflets with serrated edges and borne on long petioles. The inflorescence is a compound umbel of yellow flowers with up to 30 unequal rays measuring 2 to 12 centimeters long each. The fruit is somewhat rounded in shape, ribbed, and under a centimeter long.
Southern umbrellawort · Glaucous umbrellawort · Howell's umbrellawort · Kellogg's umbrellawort · Parish's umbrellawort · Strickland's umbrellawort · Umbrellawort
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tauschia hartwegii 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.
