Early bloomer.  Tiny yellow flowers in flat-topped clusters.  Related to Queen Anne’s Lace and Poison Hemlock.

Notes:  Carrot Family.  Also called Wild Carrot.  Some species, when soaked in water, were used for birth control.  (Have people look at leaves and guess what family it might belong to.)

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Kingdom Plantae -- Plants 
    Subkingdom Tracheobionta -- Vascular plants 
        Superdivision Spermatophyta -- Seed plants 
            Division Magnoliophyta -- Flowering plants 
                Class Magnoliopsida -- Dicotyledons 
                    Subclass Rosidae 
                        Order Apiales 
                            Family Apiaceae -- Carrot family 
                                Genus Lomatium Raf. -- desertparsley
                                    Species
                                    Lomatium utriculatum (Nutt. ex Torr. & Gray) Coult. & Rose 
                                    -- common lomatium