The deep taproot of this stemless plant produces a basal rosette of parsley-like leaves, either erect or hugging the ground, and multiple short flower stalks with dense clusters of tiny, yellow flowers.

FLOWERS: April–June. An umbrella-like cluster of 5–20 tiny yellow flowers forms on the end of a pinkish stalk (peduncle), 1 1/4–5 1/2-inches long (3–14 cm). Fruit is a showy cluster of seeds with pinkish-tinted, papery wings.

LEAVES: Basal. Blade shiny, green, deeply divided like parsley leaves, to 3-inches long (7.5 cm) including stem (petiole).

HABITAT: Sandy, gravelly, clay soils, hills, plains, mesas; desert grasslands.

ELEVATION: 4,900–7,000 feet.

RANGE: AZ, CO, ID, KA, MT, ND, NE, NM, OK, OR, SD TX, UT, WY.

SIMILAR SPECIES: Other springparsleys, C. bulbosus  and C. purpurascens, with similar ranges in NM, have bundles of purple flowers surrounded by papery white bracts. Varieties of C. glomeratus in other states may have white flowers.

NM COUNTIES: Widespread in nw NM and scattered elsewhere in low- to mid-elevation, dry habitats: Bernalillo, Cibola, Dona Ana, Eddy, Lincoln, Los Alamos, McKinley, Otero, Quay, Rio Arriba, San Juan, San Miguel, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Socorro, Taos, Torrance, Union, Valencia.