''Lomatium torreyi'' is a species of flowering plant in the

carrot family 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 plan ...

known by the common name Sierra biscuitroot. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to the

Sierra Nevada The Sierra Nevada () is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin. The vast majority of the range lies in the state of California, although the Carson Range spur lies primarily ...

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, where it grows in the forests of the high mountains.

Description

''Lomatium torreyi'' is a perennial herb growing up to 30 centimeters tall from a long taproot. There is generally no stem, the leaves and

inflorescence An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed o ...

emerging at ground level. The leaf blades are divided and subdivided into a mass of threadlike segments. The inflorescence is an

umbel In botany, an umbel is an inflorescence that consists of a number of short flower stalks (called pedicels) that spread from a common point, somewhat like umbrella ribs. The word was coined in botanical usage in the 1590s, from Latin ''umbella'' "p ...

of yellow flowers.

External links

Calflora Database: ''Lomatium torreyi'' (Sierra biscuitroot, Torrey's lomatium)Jepson Manual eFlora treatment of ''Lomatium torreyi''USDA Plants Profile for ''Lomatium torreyi''UC CalPhotos gallery of ''Lomatium torreyi''
torreyi Endemic flora of California Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States) Taxa named by John Merle Coulter Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Apiaceae-stub