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Indian Biscuitroot

Lomatium piperi Coult. & Rose

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Lomatium piperi Coult. & Rose, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 7 :
211. 1900.
Cogswellia Piperi M. E. Jones, Contr. W. Bot. 12: 33. 1908.
Plants acaulescent or short-caulescent, 1-2.5 dm. high, from a small, globose, sometimes deep-seated tuber, glabrous or the foliage puberulent; leaves oblong-ovate in general outline, excluding the petioles 3-7.5 cm. long, ternate, then tripinnate, the ultimate divisions remote, linear, 3-30 mm. long, 1-2 mm. broad, obtuse to acute; petioles 3.5-10 cm. long, sheathing below; peduncles exceeding the leaves; involucel wanting, or of a few inconspicuous, linear bractlets, shorter than the flowers; rays 3-20, spreading, 1-6 cm. long, unequal; pedicels obsolete to less than 2 mm. long, the umbellets 61 3-flowered ; flowers white, the anthers purple; fruit ovate to oblong, 5-9 mm. long, 3-4 mm. broad, the wings one-half the width of the body; oiltubes 1-8 in the intervals, 2-4 on the commissure.
Type locality: Ellensburg, Spokane (Kittitas) County, Washington, Vasey. Distribution: Western Idaho and central Washington to northern California {Cusick 1687, Thompson S1S8).
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Albert Charles Smith, Mildred Esther Mathias, Lincoln Constance, Harold William Rickett. 1944-1945. UMBELLALES and CORNALES. North American flora. vol 28B. New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Lomatium piperi

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Lomatium piperi is a species of flowering plant in the carrot family known by the common name salt-and-pepper or Indian biscuitroot (and called mámɨn in the local Sahaptin language). It is native to the Northwestern United States and northern California, where it grows in sagebrush and plateau habitat, and the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Mountains.

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Lomatium piperi is a perennial herb growing up to about 25 centimeters long from a spherical tuber no more than a centimeter wide. There is generally no stem, the leaves and inflorescence emerging at ground level. The leaf blades are divided into segments which are subdivided into narrow, flat lobes. The inflorescence is an umbel of white flowers with dark anthers.

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Lomatium piperi: Brief Summary

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Lomatium piperi is a species of flowering plant in the carrot family known by the common name salt-and-pepper or Indian biscuitroot (and called mámɨn in the local Sahaptin language). It is native to the Northwestern United States and northern California, where it grows in sagebrush and plateau habitat, and the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Mountains.

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