Lomatium nevadense
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Lomatium nevadense is a species of flowering plant in the carrot family known by the common name Nevada biscuitroot. It is native to the western United States and northern Mexico, where it is known from several different habitat types, including sagebrush and woodlands. It is a perennial herb growing up to about 45 centimeters tall from a taproot. The leaves are up to about 16 centimeters long, their blades divided into many oblong pointed segments. The inflorescence is an umbel of white or cream flowers.
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- Lomatium
- Flora of Northwestern Mexico
- Flora of California
- Flora of Nevada
- Flora of the Great Basin
- Flora of the Sierra Nevada (U.S.)
- Flora of Arizona
- Flora of New Mexico
- Flora of Oregon
- Flora of Utah
- Natural history of the Mojave Desert
- Natural history of the Transverse Ranges
- Taxa named by John Merle Coulter
- Taxa named by Sereno Watson
- Plants described in 1876
- Apiaceae stubs