General: Perennial herb from a well-developed taproot, sometimes below a slightly branched stem-base; stems solitary or sometimes 2-3, 15-70 cm tall, branching.
Leaves: Basal and stem leaves twice divided into 3's, leaflets coarsely toothed, 1.5-7 cm long, 1-4 cm wide, more or less hairy; thin basal leaves several, stalks long; stem leaves 1-3, stalks short.
Flowers: Inflorescence of loose compound umbels; flowers greenish-white, sometimes pink or purple, inconspicuous; involucels lacking.
Fruits: Club-shaped, 10-15 mm long, narrowing to a rounded or blunt end, the tip not beaklike.
Moist to mesic open forests and forest margins in the lowland and montane zones; frequent in BC E of the Coast-Cascade Mountains, rare in SW BC; N to AK and YT, E to NF and S to SD, NM and CA, disjunct to S. America.
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range. (Updated August, 2013)
