Indian Springparsley

Cymopterus aboriginum M. E. Jones, Contr W. Bot. 12:22. 1908.
Cymopterus aboriginum var. ovalis M. E. Jones, Contr. W. Bot. 12: 22. 1908. Cymopterus aboriginum var. subternatus M. E. Jones, Contr. W. Bot. 12: 23. 1908. Cymopterus aboriginum var. oblongus M. E. Jones, Contr. W. Bot. 12: 23. 1908. Aulospermum aboriginum Mathias. Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 17: 352. 1930.
Plants acaulescent, 9-35 cm. high, a pseudoscape never developed; leaves oblong in general outline, excluding the petioles 3-10 cm. long, 1-4.5 cm. broad, ternate-bipinnate or tripinnate, gray-green, hirtellous, the leaflets entire to pinnately lobed, the lobes linear, acute, 2-8 mm. long, 0.5-2 mm. broad, distinct to slightly confluent; petioles 2-13 cm. long; peduncles equaling or exceeding the leaves, 8-30 cm. long, glabrous; involucre wanting, or of a few linear bracts; involucel of several linear, subscarious, acute to acuminate, puberulent bractlets shorter than or equaling the flowers; umbels subcompact, the fertile rays 3-10, spreading, 4-20 mm. long, usually glabrous, the central umbellets sterile; pedicels 3-7 mm. long; flowers white; fruit ovoid to oblong, 6-11 mm. long, 5-8 mm. broad, the wings linear, about twice as wide as the body; oil-tubes 2-8 in the intervals, 6-22 on the commissure; seed-face slightly concave.
Type locality: Indian Spring, Charleston Mountains, Nevada, 4000 feet, M. E. Jones.
Distribution: Eastern California, in the Death Valley region, and adjacent Nevada (Clokey 8447. Duran 2733, Gilman 3849).

Cymopterus aboriginum is a species of flowering plant in the carrot family known by the common name Indian springparsley.