Plants 20–70 cm, olive-green, pubescent. Basal leaves withered at flowering. Lower stem leaves petiolate, petioles 0.5–1.5 cm, purplish; blade narrowly oblong in outline, 5–12 × 1–5 cm, 1-pinnate; pinnae 4–7 pairs, oblong, 6–15(–50) × 8–12(–30) mm, entire or 2–3(–5)-lobed. Leaves reduced upwards becoming 3-lobed or entire. Umbels 3–5 cm across; bracts 1, linear, inconspicuous or absent; rays (2–)4–6, 5–15(–20) mm; bracteoles 6–10, linear-lanceolate, shorter than flowers; umbellules 8–20-flowered. Calyx teeth obsolete. Petals white, obovate, abaxially pubescent. Fruit 3–4 × 1.2–1.5 mm, densely white pubescent. Seed face plane. Fl. Aug–Sep, fr. Sep–Oct.

Arid limestone slopes, limestone talus slopes; 500–1100 m. Hebei, NW Liaoning, Nei Mongol.