Musineon divaricatum(Pursh) Nutt.

leafy wildparsley

WFO wfo-0001067682 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Musineon divaricatum, photographed by mfeaver
fig. a mfeaver, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-27 / obs. 202112716
Musineon divaricatum, photographed by John Gaskin
fig. b John Gaskin, CC0 1.0 / obs. 200874781
Musineon divaricatum, photographed by John Gaskin
fig. c John Gaskin, CC0 1.0 / obs. 200875982
Musineon divaricatum, photographed by John Gaskin
fig. d John Gaskin, CC0 1.0 / obs. 200382077
Musineon divaricatum, photographed by John Gaskin
fig. e John Gaskin, CC0 1.0 / obs. 199822173
Musineon divaricatum, photographed by Eric Lamb
fig. f Eric Lamb, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201984181
Musineon divaricatum, photographed by Eric Lamb
fig. g Eric Lamb, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205154141
Musineon divaricatum, photographed by dghjertaas
fig. h dghjertaas, CC0 1.0 / obs. 199173535

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Regions where Musineon divaricatum is native: Alberta, Colorado, Idaho, Manitoba, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, Wyoming AlbertaColoradoIdahoManitobaMontanaNebraskaNevadaNorth DakotaSaskatchewanSouth DakotaWyoming
Native distribution of Musineon divaricatum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alberta ABT NORTHERN AMERICA
Colorado COL
Idaho IDA
Manitoba MAN
Montana MNT
Nebraska NEB
Nevada NEV
North Dakota NDA
Saskatchewan SAS
South Dakota SDA
Wyoming WYO

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 133 in flower of 156 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Musineon divaricatum observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 133 of 156 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 9 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 13 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Adorium crassifolium Raf.
  • Adorium divaricatum Rydb.
  • Adorium hookeri Rydb.
  • Adorium lucidum Kuntze
  • Lomatium lucidum (Fraser ex Nutt.) Jeps.
  • Marathrum divaricatum Raf.
  • Musenium angustifolium Nutt.
  • Musenium pedunculatum A.Nelson
  • Musineon angustifolium Nutt.
  • Musineon hookeri (Torr. & A.Gray) Nutt.
  • Musineon trachyspermum Nutt. ex Torr. & A.Gray
  • Seseli divaricatum Pursh
  • Seseli lucidum Nutt.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.