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Lomatium triternatum
Lomatium triternatum is a species of flowering plant in the carrot family known by the common name nineleaf biscuitroot. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Colorado, where it grows in many types of habitat. It is a hairy perennial herb growing up to a meter tall from a taproot. The leaves emerge from the lower part of the stem. Each is generally divided into three leaflets which are each subdivided into three linear leaflike segments. The inflorescence is an umbel of yellow flowers, each cluster on a ray up to 10 centimeters long, altogether forming a flat formation of umbels.
7 branches of this group, most-observed first

Ternate Desert-parsley
speciesLomatium triternatum

Narrowfruit Biscuitroot
speciesLomatium brevifolium

Thompson's Desert Parsley
speciesLomatium thompsonii

Lomatium andrusianum
speciesLomatium andrusianum

Anomalous Biscuit-root
speciesLomatium anomalum

Succor Creek parsley
speciesLomatium packardiae

Yakama Biscuitroot
speciesLomatium tamanitchii
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1521902.