Angelica genuflexa Nutt. ex Torr. & A. Gray

Herbs 0.5–2 m high. Rhizome vertical, 1–1.5 cm thick. Petioles 3–8 cm, sheaths inflated; blade ovate to triangular, 10–40 cm, 1–2-ternate-pinnate, rachis and petiolules often geniculate; leaflets subsessile, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 5–13 × 1–6 cm, margin coarsely mucronulate-serrate, apex acuminate, hispidulous. Peduncles 20–30 cm, hispidulous; bracts absent; rays 20–40, 5–8 cm, unequal; bracteoles many, linear, 11–20 mm, hispidulous; pedicels 5–15 mm. Petals white, ovate, puberulent. Ovary hispidulous. Fruit suborbicular, 4–8 × 3.6–6 mm, pubescent or glabrous; dorsal ribs acute-prominent, lateral ribs broad-winged; vittae 1 in each furrow, 2 on commissure. Fl. and fr. Jul–Sep.

Liaoning [Japan, Russia (Siberia); North America].

Forests; 200–300 m.