Follow on to Adam Schneider's observation https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/166488114
See also https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/218395573 and others in immediate locale.
Possibly L. knokei or possibly new species.
Plants slightly less mature, but in the same location and apparently the same species, accounting for further leaf inflation. Small plants, about 4 inches tall at this stage. Modest population along the road scattered along a few hundred feet, many in the drainage ditch to the east or adjacent wet areas. Saw none in adjacent higher (drier) spots. In or very close to a burn area from 10 to 15 years ago. Flowering coincides with nearby buttercup and Olsynium douglasii.
At 5650 feet (1720 m) elevation.
A buttercup (presumably Ranunculus alismifolius) is abundant at the same site. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/218264882
Some areas nearby are badly degraded by (legal with permit) firewood collecting from fire-dead trees, camping, and ORV use.
The only pink-flowered Lomatium I saw all day. Looked like L. canbyi except for the color.
I think this was a phenotypically distinct individual in that it was a yellow Lomatium canbyi. Growing out of rhyolitic clay mud. Relatively undisturbed soil as evidenced by the diverse cryptobiotic community.
there is an area with hundreds of Lomatium cuspidatum just south of the pass leading to Lake Ann from Esmeralda. this shows a few of them. they are hard to make out, but the fifth photo has at least 30 visible.
Another biscuitroot whose specific identity I'm not sure of. Sweet little pop of yellow in the sand.