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Post by ottawagardener on Mar 3, 2009 7:55:17 GMT -5
Stephen I am currently adding Carum carvi to my 'root' crop list and impatiently awaiting this thread.
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Post by stevil on Jul 31, 2009 3:35:49 GMT -5
Update: I planted Lomatium californicum (seed propagated) last year and it came through the winter in good shape and has grown away quite vigorously (for a Lomatium):   I also now have small plants of L. cous (as mentioned above, one of the most important food varieties) as well as L. foeniculaceum.... |
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Post by alkapuler on Jun 29, 2010 12:46:46 GMT -5
In early May, a fellow botanico and i went looking for Lomatiums in the high desert, just east of the Cascades. One location had four species, one with mature seed: L. cous. There were some L. nudicaule just spiking, as well as L. canbyi with white flowers (seeds still not mature a month later), L. ambiguum (maybe, not easy to distinguish from L. triternatum). By traveling along the Deschutes River, there are populations of L. suksdorfii, large clumpy plants in basalt scree hillsides mixed with poison oak with mature seeds in mid June. One area had L. grayi, Pungent Desert Parsley, again large plants with a fine characteristic fragrance and finely dissected foliage. In previous years i had misidentified L. grayi only to find that several of my seedling pots/flats had this species doing quite well. So i transplanted more than a dozen into gallon pots. Stevil and Utopiate are both right about how interesting, somewhat difficult to grow, and worthwhile are these Lomatiums.
In the Willamette Valley, L. bradshawi is considered an endangered species. So after three years of looking, we found 2 plants, one which had been run over by a car. Last week we collected 13 seeds.
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