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Lomatium grayi (Gray's biscuitroot)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Lomatium grayi, commonly known as Gray's biscuitroot, Gray's lomatium, or milfoil lomatium, is a perennial herb of the family Apiaceae. It is native to Western Canada in British Columbia, and the Western United States, including from the Eastern Cascades and northeastern California to the Rocky Mountains. It is a perennial herb found growing in dry rocky banks and slopes. It has a lifespan of 5–7 years.
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Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [2]  Herb
Height [1]  20 inches (0.5 m)
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Desert Biosphere Reserve 68236 Utah, United States
Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area V 103172 Washington, United States

Predators

Papilio indra (Indra Swallowtail)[3]
Papilio zelicaon (Anise swallowtail)[3]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0