Carrotleaf Horkelia

Horkelia daucifolia (Greene) Rydb. Bull. Torrey
Club 25: 55. 1898.
Horkelia congesia Brewer & Wats. Bot. Calif. 1 : 181, in part. 1876.
Potentilla daucifolia Greene, Pittonia 1 : 160. 1888.
Poteniilla congesta lobata Ivemmon, Bull. Torrey Club 16 : 221. 1889.
Perennial, with a short caudex covered with densely pubescent scales; stem about 3 dm. high, strict and mostly simple, pilose with long fine hairs and glandular throughout ; stipules pectinately divided into linear segments, those of the basal leaves finely twice dissected into nearly filiform, hairy, more or less curled segments ; leaves pinflate, sparingly silky-pilose, the rachis with long spreading hairs ; leaflets 8-12 pairs, 1-3 cm. long, divided to near the base into linear acute segments; cyme more open than in H. hirsuta; pedicels 3-10 mm. long; hypanthium silky-pilose, cupulate, in fruit about 8 mm. in diameter ; bractlets linear, nearly subulate, a little shorter than the broadly lanceolate sepals, which are 5-6 mm. long; petals cream-colored, spatulate-oblong, a little exceedingthe sepals.
Type locality : Klamath and Shasta Valleys, California. Distribution: Northern California and southern Oregon.

Horkelia daucifolia is a species of flowering plant in the rose family known by the common name carrotleaf horkelia. It is native to the Klamath Mountains and surrounding ranges in northern California and southern Oregon. It grows on mountain slopes and fields, often on serpentine soils. It is a perennial herb that produces a rosette of leaves, each five to 15 centimeters long. Each leaf is made up of lobed, hairy leaflets that are one or two centimeters long. The plant produces erect stems up to 30 centimeters tall and bright red or greenish in color. The inflorescence holds several flowers, each with narrow, pointed bractlets and wider, reflexed green or pinkish sepals. The five narrow petals are white, yellow, or pink.