Globe Springparsley

Cymopterus globosus S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 11: 141. 1876
Cymopterus monlanus var. globosus S. Wats. Bot. King's Expl. 124, in part. 1871.
Plants subcaulescent with the development of a pseudoscape, 3-20 cm. high, glabrous; leaves oblong-ovate in general outline, excluding the petioles 1-7 cm. long, 0.5-6 cm. broad, ternate-bipinnate or bipinnate, glaucous and somewhat coriaceous, the leaflets pinnately incised or lobed, the lobes minutely apiculate, confluent, 0.5-6 mm. long, 0.5-4 mm. broad; petioles 1-10 cm. long; peduncles equaling or exceeding the leaves; involucre wanting; involucel of scarious, linear, paleaceous, entire bractlets shorter than the flowers; umbels compact, discoid, the rays and pedicels obsolete; flowers white or purple; fruit narrowly cuneate or abruptly constricted below the middle, 6-1 1 mm. long, 3-7 mm. broad, the wings occasionally somewhat constricted at the base, usually acute at the apex, narrower than the body, the dorsal wings usually 3, similar to the lateral; oil-tubes large, usually solitary in the intervals, 2-4 on the commissure, sometimes solitary in each wing.
Type locality: Carson City, northern Nevada, 5000 feet, Watson 449.
Distribution: Western Utah and Nevada to eastern California (Jones 3SS5. Mathias 1248).