Stems: nearly stemless. Leaves: compound, leaflets pinnately incised, on rather short petioles. Flowers: in a somewhat unequally three-to-ten-rayed umbel. Fruit: flattened dorsally, oblong, laterally winged.

A hairy Parsley much branched at the base from a thick elongated root. The leaves are compound, and the short stalks of the leaflets are purplish at the base. The white flowers grow in flat umbels.