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Perideridia is a genus of plants in the family Apiaceae. Plants in this genus are known generally as yampah or yampa. They are native to western North America. Similar in appearance to other plants of the family Apiaceae, they have umbels of white flowers.

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GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderApiales
  5. FamilyApiaceae
Native toAlabama, Alberta, Arizona, Arkansas, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky

via GBIF · Kew POWO

Museum specimens

Specimen records
223
With media
194
Family
Apiaceae
Collections
NY
Recorded in
United States

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Perideridia is a genus of plants in the family Apiaceae. Plants in this genus are known generally as yampah or yampa. They are native to western North America. Similar in appearance to other plants of the family Apiaceae, they have umbels of white flowers.

==Name== The genus is based on the Greek word perideri, meaning 'necklace'.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Perideridia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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