Common Name: CARROT FAMILY Habit: Annual to perennial herb [shrub, tree], generally from taproot. Stem: generally +- scapose, generally ribbed, hollow. Leaf: basal and generally cauline, generally alternate; stipules generally 0; petiole base generally sheathing stem; blade generally much dissected, occasionally compound. Inflorescence: umbel or head, simple or compound, generally peduncled; bracts present in involucres or 0; bractlets generally present in "involucels". Flower: many, small, generally bisexual (or some staminate), generally radial (or outer bilateral); calyx 0 or lobes 5, small; petals 5, free, generally ovate or spoon-shaped, generally incurved at tips, generally +- ephemeral; stamens 5; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 2-chambered, generally with a +- conic, persistent projection or platform at tip subtending 2 free styles. Fruit: 2 dry, 1-seeded halves (= mericarps), separating from each other but generally +- persistent to central axis; ribs on halves 5, 2 marginal, 3 to back; oil tubes 1--several per interval between ribs. Genera In Family: 300 genera, 3000 species: +- worldwide, especially temperate; many cultivated for food or spice (e.g., Carum, caraway; Daucus; Petroselinum); Bupleurum lancifolium Hornem. is historical garden weed; some toxic (e.g., Conium). Note: Mature fruit generally critical in identification, shape given in outline. Hydrocotyle moved to Araliaceae, Orogenia moved to Lomatium, Sphenosciadium moved to Angelica. Petroselinum crispum (Mill.) A.W. Hill is a waif. eFlora Treatment Author: Lincoln Constance & Margriet Wetherwax, except as noted Scientific Editor: Douglas H. Goldman, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Habit: Biennial, perennial herb; taprooted, roots clustered, or rhizomes; generally glabrous, +- spiny. Stem: decumbent to erect, generally branched. Leaf: basal rosette, cauline; petioles present or 0; blades linear to triangular-ovate or round, generally pinnately or palmately lobed or dissected (entire), generally sharp-toothed or spine-tipped, net-veined; juvenile leaves linear, segmented. Inflorescence: heads 1--many in cymes, racemes [panicles]; bracts each generally subtend 1 flower, with scarious membrane enclosing ovary, outer > to >> inner, spiny or not on margins and abaxially; rays, pedicels 0. Flower: sepals spine-tipped, generally persistent; petals oblong to ovate or oblanceolate, white to blue or purple, tip long; anthers, styles generally green, occasionally blue; ovary tip projection 0. Fruit: obconic to obovate or narrowly elliptic [round], compressed or not, densely scaly; scales at fruit tip and along juncture of carpels generally larger, longer than on face or base; ribs 0; oil tubes obscure; fruit central axis not obvious. Seed: face generally flat. Etymology: (Ancient Greek name used by Theophrastus) Note: California species variable, intergrading, need study. eFlora Treatment Author: Robert E. Preston, Michael S. Park & Lincoln Constance Reference: Marsden & Simpson 1999 Madroño 46:61--64; Taylor & Preston 2022 Phytoneuron 2022-45:1--8 Unabridged Reference: Sheikh 1983 Madroño 30:93--101
Eryngium montereyense D.W. Taylor & R.E. Preston
NATIVE Habit: Glabrous. Stem: branches decumbent, 10--15 cm, slender. Leaf: basal <= 16 cm, linear, pinnate with short linear to lanceolate lobes or entire, cauline <= 5 cm, coarsely serrate. Inflorescence: heads 9--12 mm; peduncle 10--15 mm; bracts linear, 5--9 mm, 1.5--2.5 mm wide, spines 0. Flower: sepals 2 mm, lance-ovate, entire; petals 0.5--1 mm, oblanceolate, white; styles <= sepals. Fruit: 1.5--3 mm, obconic; scales unequal, proximal conical, distal lance-attenuate. Ecology: Vernal pools, seasonally wet swales; Elevation: 140 m. Bioregional Distribution: CCo (n Monterey Co.). Flowering Time: May--Jul Jepson eFlora Author: Robert E. Preston, Michael S. Park & Lincoln Constance Reference: Marsden & Simpson 1999 Madroño 46:61--64; Taylor & Preston 2022 Phytoneuron 2022-45:1--8 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Listed on CNPS Rare Plant Inventory Previous taxon: Eryngium mathiasiae Next taxon: Eryngium pendletonense
Citation for this treatment: Robert E. Preston, Michael S. Park & Lincoln Constance 2023, Eryngium montereyense, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, Revision 12, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=93913, accessed on February 08, 2025.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2025, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on February 08, 2025.
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