Plant with no central stem, plant glabrous. Yellow flower umbels appearing in May through early June. Flower umbels to 3 cm in diameter. Leaves divided 3 times, leaftlets elliptic in shape. Leaf with petiole 11 cm long, 6 cm wide. Leaf and flower stems red-coloured at their base. Bracts are ovate to oblanceolate, 4 mm long, 2 mm wide with a rounded tip.
Leaves have a celery-like smell when crushed.
Budd's Flora lists the height from 20 to 25 cm. Height of plant in photo was 11 cm.
Could be mistaken for Lomatium dissectum, both are yellow flowered members of the Umbelliferae family, share the same habitat, and bloom at the same time. However, Lomatium dissectum is a much taller plant (30 to 90 cm tall), has linear bracts, and has hairy undersides to its leaves.
Habitat is slopes in the Cypress Hills.
Very rare, listed as an S1 by the Saskatchewan Conservation Data Centre.
Photos taken May 7th, on rocky slopes in the Cypress Hills,
about 400 km southwest of our home in Regina, SK.