Fendler's Springparsley

Cymopterus fendleri A. Gray, Mem. Am. Acad. II. 4: 56. 1849
Cymoplerus decipiens M. E. Jones, Zoe 2: 246. 1891.
Plants acaulescent or subcaulescent, not cespitose, with the development of a pseudoscape 4-30 cm. high, the mature pseudoscape 1-3 cm. long, glabrous; leaves ovate to oblong-obovate in general outline, excluding the petioles 1-7.5 cm. long, 0.5-6 cm. broad, pinnate to bipinnate, green, the leaflets longer than broad, entire to pinnately lobed, the lobes obtuse or occasionally acute, 0.5-5 mm. long, 0.5-4 mm. broad, frequently confluent; petioles 1.2-12 cm. long; peduncles usually equaling or exceeding the leaves; involucre usually a low sheath, sometimes with 1-3 linear bracts; involucel of subscarious to foliaceous, linear to ovate-oblong, acute, and frequently 3-toothed bractlets, equaling or exceeding the flowers; umbels compact, the fertile rays usually 3-5, 2-25 mm. long, the central umbellet sessile, sterile; pedicels obsolete; flowers yellow; fruit ovoid to ovoid-oblong, 5-13 mm. long 4-10 mm. broad, the wings narrowed at the base and sometimes acuminate at the apex, about half as wide as the body, the dorsal wings 1-3, similar to the lateral; oil-tubes 3-16 in the intervals, 6-12 on the commissure, sometimes solitary at the wing-base; strengthening cells present or absent.
Type locality: Gravelly hills, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Fendler 274.
Distribution: Northern Utah to New Mexico, Arizona, and northern Chihuahua (Heller &*