Angelica saxatilis Turcz. ex Ledeb.

This species differs from Coelopleurum gmelinii (de Candolle) Ledebour, from Russia (Kamchatka and Siberia), in having fruit with broad intervals and few vittae.

Plants 60–80 cm. Root brown, cylindric, ca. 2 cm thick. Stem purplish-green, sparsely pubescent, little-branched above, thin-ribbed. Basal and lower leaves long-petiolate, deciduous. Middle leaves short petiolate, sheaths broad-membranous; blade 2–3-ternate-pinnate; leaflets subsessile, rhombic-ovate or oblique-ovate, up to 7 × 4 cm, base cuneate or subrounded, margin coarse-serrate, apex acuminate, glabrous. Umbels 5–9 cm across; bracts absent; rays 20–27, 3–4.5 cm, densely pubescent; bracteoles 7–8, linear, ciliate, much longer than pedicels; pedicels 20–30, hispidulous. Fruit ellipsoid, 4–5 × 2–3 mm; vittae 1 in each furrow, 2 on commissure. Fl. Jul–Aug, fr. Aug–Sep. n = 14*.

Jilin (Changbai Shan) [Korea, Russia].

Damp forests, ravines, steep slopes, grasslands; above 1900 m.