''Lomatium austiniae'' (Austin's desertparsley or Sonne's desert parsley) is a

perennial plant A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years. The term ('' per-'' + '' -ennial'', "through the years") is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter-lived annuals and biennials. The term is also wide ...

in the carrot family (

Apiaceae Apiaceae or Umbelliferae is a family of mostly aromatic flowering plants named after the type genus ''Apium'' and commonly known as the celery, carrot or parsley family, or simply as umbellifers. It is the 16th-largest family of flowering plants ...

) occurring in a limited area of

Nevada Nevada ( ; ) is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, Western region of the United States. It is bordered by Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. N ...

.Great Basin Wildflowers, Laird R. Blackwell, 2006, Morris Book Publishing LLC., It is named after Rebecca Merritt Smith Leonard Austin, who collected the type specimen.John M. Coulter and J.M. Rose. Some notes on Western Umbelliferae. ''Botanical Gazette''. vol. 13. pages 204-211. 1888 It was formerly classified as '' Lomatium plummerae'' var. ''sonnei''. The epithet "austinae" is an orthographic variant subject to automatic correction without publication under ICBN Art. 60.11 to ''austiniae''.

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austiniae Flora of Nevada Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{apiaceae-stub