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Jakutsk snowparsley

Cnidium cnidiifolium

Also called Northern Hemlock Parsley, Jakutsk Snow Parsley

Jakutsk snowparsley
Photo: NPS / Jacob W. Frank: Denali National Park and Preserve, Public domain
Family
Apiaceae (Carrot family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
C. Siberia to Russian Far East, Alaska to N. British Columbia
Climate
temperate

About

Cnidium cnidiifolium is a species of flowering plant in the parsley family, Apiaceae. Its common names include northern hemlock-parsley and Jakutsk snowparsley, after the Russian town Jakutsk. It is native to Russia, Alaska, and the Northwest Territories, Yukon, and British Columbia in Canada.

Light purple to white umbels bloom from late June to August, each with five lanceolate bracts. The fruits are ovate. The lower leaves are glabrous, bi- to tripinnate, and borne on petioles, while the upper leaves are nearly sessile to sessile. The stems are split at the caudex and are up to 60 centimeters tall.

Other Cnidium plants

Monnier's snowparsley · Snowparsley

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Cnidium cnidiifolium by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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