Friday, July 05, 2019

Consumption plant, gone to seed, with spider web

Every time I look at these at Oyster Bay Shoreline Park, they've already gone to seed.

Lomatium nudicale, Indian consumption plant, aka Bare-stem desert parseley.

The flowers are yellow, and there's a patch right beside the trail, where I pass every time I visit. By early June, though, they've all gone to seed.

Flowers in bloom, May 2018

"The seeds were used for flavouring stews, soups, teas and tobacco. ... The plant was widely used during the last century for the treatment of 'consumption' (tuberculosis)." (Plants of Coastal British Columbia)

Hence the name.

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