Snow Spring-parsley - Cymopterus nivalis
Other Names:
Cymopterus bipinnatus
Native Species
Global Rank:
G5
State Rank:
S5
C-value:
5
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Acaulescent with a woody, branched caudex covered in old petioles. Herbage scabrous. Leaves long-petiolate; blades 1–5 cm long, lanceolate in outline, bipinnate; ultimate segments crowded, 1–2 mm long. Umbels solitary, compact; peduncles 3–17 cm long, prostrate to ascending; rays 2–4 mm long; involucre absent; involucel bracts acuminate-ovate, 2–4 mm long, scarious-margined, united at the base. Flowers white; sepals ca. 0.5 mm long. Mericarps narrowly elliptic, 3–7 mm long; marginal wings wavy, 1–1.5 mm wide, wider than the dorsal ribs; oil tubes 5 to 6 per interval (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Gravelly soil of grasslands, sagebrush steppe, woodlands, open forest, fellfields; montane to alpine (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).