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Lomatium nudicaule

Perennial

HomePerennialLomatium nudicaule

Dry open or lightly wooded areas at low to moderate elevations

Family: Apiaceae
Height: 0.6 m / 2 ft
Sun
Light, Medium and Heavy Soil
Dry to Moist

Plant Rating

Edible Uses: 4 of 5
Medicinal Uses: 2 of 5
Other Uses: 2 of 5

Native Habitat

Pestle Parsnip, Barestem biscuitroot Lomatium nudicaule native habitat is Dry open or lightly wooded areas at low to moderate elevations

Edible Uses

Root - raw or cooked. The taste is rather like a hot spicy parsnip. The root can be roasted and used as a vegetable, or can be dried and ground into a powder then used as a flavouring in soups etc. Leaves and young shoots - eaten as a vegetable or used as a celery-like flavouring in soups etc. The leaves, stems and flowers are infused and used as a beverage. Seed - raw or cooked. The immature seed is chewed as a refreshing snack and can be used as a flavouring in soups etc. The vitamin C content of young plants is remarkably high, one cup providing more than the recommended daily allowance. (the part of the plant is not referred to, it is probably the leaves)

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