''Lomatium austiniae'' (Austin's desertparsley or Sonne's desert parsley) is a

perennial plant In horticulture, the term perennial (''wikt:per-#Prefix, per-'' + ''wikt:-ennial#Suffix, -ennial'', "through the year") is used to differentiate a plant from shorter-lived annual plant, annuals and biennial plant, biennials. It has thus been d ...

in the carrot family (

Apiaceae Apiaceae () or Umbelliferae is a family of mostly aromatic flowering plants named after the type genus ''Apium,'' and commonly known as the celery, carrot, or parsley family, or simply as umbellifers. It is the 16th-largest family of flowering p ...

) occurring in a limited area of

Nevada Nevada ( ; ) is a landlocked state in the Western United States. It borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the seventh-most extensive, th ...

.Great Basin Wildflowers, Laird R. Blackwell, 2006, Morris Book Publishing LLC., It is named after Rebecca Merritt Smith Leonard Austin, who collected the type specimen.John M. Coulter and J.M. Rose. Some notes on Western Umbelliferae. ''Botanical Gazette''. vol. 13. pages 204-211. 1888 It was formerly classified as '' Lomatium plummerae'' var. ''sonnei''. The epithet "austinae" is an orthographic variant subject to automatic correction without publication under ICBN Art. 60.11 to ''austiniae''.

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austiniae Flora of Nevada Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{apiaceae-stub