General: Slender perennial herb from tuberous-thickened and often clustered edible root, often fascicled, glabrous; stems solitary, 0.4-1.2 m tall.
Leaves: Several, well distributed along stem, divided 1-3 times, elongate; basal leaf sheaths not much inflated; ultimate segments long and narrow.
Flowers: Inflorescence of compound umbels; flowers terminal and lateral; spokes up to 6 cm long at maturity; flowers white or pink; involucel bractlets bristly or obsolete.
Fruits: Roundish, 2-3 mm long and wide, slightly flattened, glabrous, prominent ribs.
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Moist to dry meadows and woodlands in the lowland and montane zones; infrequent in SE and SW BC (known from SE Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands), also rare in SC BC; E to SK and S to SD, CO, NM and CA.
