Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany Volume 29 | Issue 2 Article 3 2011 A New Variety of Lomatium ravenii (Apiaceae) from the Northern Great Basin and Adjacent Owyhee Region Kimberly M. Carlson The College of Idaho, Caldwell Donald H. Mansfield The College of Idaho, Caldwell James F. Smith Boise State University, Boise, Idaho Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.claremont.edu/aliso Part of the Botany Commons, and the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Commons Recommended Citation Carlson, Kimberly M.; Mansfield, Donald H.; and Smith, James F. (2011) "A New Variety of Lomatium ravenii (Apiaceae) from the Northern Great Basin and Adjacent Owyhee Region," Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany: Vol. 29: Iss. 2, Article 3. Available at: http://scholarship.claremont.edu/aliso/vol29/iss2/3 Aliso, 29(2), pp. 105–114 ’ 2011, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden A NEW VARIETY OF LOMATIUM RAVENII (APIACEAE) FROM THE NORTHERN GREAT BASIN AND ADJACENT OWYHEE REGION KIMBERLY M. CARLSON,1 DONALD H. MANSFIELD,1,3 AND JAMES F. SMITH2 1Department of Biology, The College of Idaho, 2112 Cleveland Boulevard, Caldwell, Idaho 83605, USA; 2Department of Biological Sciences, Boise State University, 1910 University Drive, Boise, Idaho 83725, USA 3Corresponding author (
[email protected]) ABSTRACT Variability in the group of Lomatium species comprising L. nevadense, L. ravenii, and L. foeniculaceum has led to conflicting classification schemes. While some taxonomists have treated L. ravenii as a distinct species made up of all the populations from California, Nevada, Idaho, and Oregon, others considered L. ravenii to be nothing more than a morphological extreme of L.