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Lomatium
Family: Apiaceae
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Wayne H. Whaley, Ph.D.  
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Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Fr oblong to suborbicular, strongly flattened dorsally, the lateral ribs with conspicuous flat wings, the others slender; carpophore bifid to the base; umbels compound, with several to many usually unequal rays; invol minute or none; umbellets densely many-fld; bractlets in ours conspicuous, all on the outer side of the umbellet, often connate; sep minute or none; pet yellow or white (or pinkish); stylopodium scarcely developed; acaulescent perennials from a vertical thickened root, with several pinnately or ternate-pinnately decompound basal lvs, rarely also a lf near the base of the scape. (Cogswellia) 70, w. and c. N. Amer

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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Species within checklist: Nebraska
Lomatium daucifolium
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Lomatium foeniculaceum
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Lomatium megarrhizum
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Lomatium nuttallii
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Lomatium orientale
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