Woollyfruit Desertparsley

Lomatium dasycarpum is found from the North Coast Ranges of California south to Baja California, Mexico. This herb is typically found on dry ridges at elevation less than 1600 meters in such locations at California's North Coast Ranges, Cascade Range foothills, Sierra Nevada Foothills, California Central Valley, San Francisco Bay Area, South Coast Ranges and Peninsular Ranges.

With a common name of Woollyfruit desertparsley, this plant is anchored by a taproot and can attain a height of up to one half meter. The stem ascending to erect, and exhibits leaf petioles of 2.5 to 12.0 centimeters long; oblong to obovate blades are two to twelve centimeters. The leaf geometry manifests as pinnately or ternate-pinnately dissected.

Lomatium dasycarpum (T. & G.) Coult. & Rose, Contr. U. S
Nat. Herb. 7: 218. 1900.
Peucedanum dasycarpum T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 1: 628. 1840. Peucedanum Pringlei Coult. & Rose. Bot. Gaz. 13: 209. 1888. Peucedanum Jaredi Eastw. Zoe 5: 88. 1900.
Cogswellia dasycarpa M. E. Jones, Contr. W. Bot. 12: 34. 1908. Cogswellia Jaredii Coult. & Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 450. 1909. Lomatium dasycarpum var. decorum Jepson, Madrono 1: 154. 1924. Lomatium dasycarpum var. medium Jepson, Madrono 1: 154. 1924.
Plants acaulescent or short-caulescent, 1-4 dm. high, purplish, especially below, from a long slender taproot, villous-tomentose to glabrate; leaves oblong to ovate in general outline, excluding the petioles 3-13.5 cm. long, quadripinnate, occasionally ternate, then pinnately decompound, the ultimate divisions crowded, not confluent, linear, 1-3 mm. long, about 0.5 mm. broad, entire, obtuse to acute; petioles 2.5-10 cm. long, sheathing to near the middle; peduncles exceeding the leaves; involucel of linear-lanceolate, acute, sometimes connate bractlets, about equaling the flowers; rays 10-20, spreading, 1-8.5 cm. long; pedicels 7-20 mm. long, usually longer than the fruit, the umbellets many-flowered; flowers greenish (appearing white because of the pubescent petals) or purplish; fruit orbicular to ovate-oblong, 8-15 mm. long, 7-10 mm. broad, the body tomentulose to glabrate, the wings sparingly villous to glabrate, broader than the body; oil-tubes 1-4 in the intervals, occasionally with smaller accessory tubes, 2-4 on the commissure, rarely 1 at the base of each wing.
Type locality; California, Douglas.
Distribution: "Coast Ranges, northwestern California to Baja California (Chandler 1445, Heller &• Brown 5088a) .

Lomatium dasycarpum is a species of flowering plant in the carrot family known by the common name woollyfruit desertparsley. It is native to California and Baja California, where it is widespread throughout many of the mountain ranges, including the Peninsular, Sierra Nevada, and California Coast Ranges, and in valleys.