[The Desert Parsleys of Mt. Adams]

Slender-fruit Desert Parsley

Lomatium leptocarpum ?

or Lomatium triternatum

The photo above shows the slender, developing fruits atop short pedicels of this species. Note also the narrow bractlets at the base of the inflorescence. Photographed at a DNR rock quarry at about 4100' abreast a ridge dividing the Dairy Creek and Cougar Creek drainages at the southeastern corner of Mt. Adams.................May 29, 2005.

Photographed at a DNR rock quarry at about 4100' abreast a ridge dividing the Dairy Creek and Cougar Creek drainages at the southeastern corner of Mt. Adams.................May 29, 2005. Notice the bipinnate leaves.

The photo above possibly shows slender-fruit desert parsley ? along Rd K6000 near an elevation of 2780'..................May 14, 2005.

Paul Slichter