''Lomatium bradshawii'', also known as Bradshaw's desert parsley, is an endangered perennial

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. ''Lomatium bradshawii'' was thought to be extinct until 1979, when it was rediscovered by a

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graduate.Lawton, Barbara Perry. ''Parsleys, Fennels, and Queen Anne's Lace''. Portland: Timber Press, 2007. This herb was common in the

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before agricultural development and fire prevention which has allowed shrubs and weeds to invade. Most known populations of ''Lomatium bradshawii'' are within ten miles of

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. In the Willamette Valley, populations exist in the Oregon counties

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, Benton,

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, and in Washington ''Lomatium bradshawii'' grows in

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. The largest population of this herb is in Camas Meadows, Washington, with a population of 10,7900,00 +/- 2,010,000, and the Berry Botanic Garden keeps a

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. ''Lomatium bradshawii'' grows in low elevations along rivers or in regularly flooded prairies. Yellow

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s of ''Lomatium bradshawii'' occur from April to May."''Lomatium bradshawii'' (Rose) Math. & Const."
. 1999.

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photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Oregon in 1921
bradshawii Flora of Oregon Flora of Washington (state) Endemic flora of the United States Endangered flora of the United States Plants described in 1934 Taxa named by Lincoln Constance Taxa named by Mildred Esther Mathias {{Apiaceae-stub