Strickland's umbrella-wort

Appearance

General: Glabrous, often acaulescent perennial from a thickened taproot, 5-20 cm. tall.
Leaves: Basal leaves long-petiolate, trifoliate to 5-7 pinnate, the leaflets elliptic, 1-3 cm. long and 4-10 mm. wide; cauline leaves, if any, few and much reduced.
Flowers: Inflorescence a compound umbel, the several rays elongating unequally, much longer in fruit than in flower; involucre none, involucel of several slender bractlets 1-2 mm. long; calyx teeth minute; flowers yellow; pedicels short.
Fruits: Fruit sub-globose, 2-3 mm. long and nearly as wide, with longitudinal ribs and grooves.

Naming

Hesperogenia stricklandii

Distribution

At 5000 to 6500 feet elevation, Mt. Rainier and Twin Sisters Lakes area of Yakima County.

Habitat

Stream banks, moist meadows and slopes.