Ferula ovina (Boiss.) Boiss.

Plants 50–100 cm. Stems slender, 1–2, rigid, often purplish red, nodes slightly swollen, paniculate-branched, lower branches alternate, upper branches verticillate. Leaf blade ovate, ternate-3–4-pinnatisect; ultimate segments ovate, 5–10 mm, densely hispid, sub-leathery, margins toothed or lobed. Cauline leaves reduced upwards to small, broad, leathery ovate-lanceolate sheaths. Terminal umbel sessile or short-pedunculate, lateral umbels 1–2(–5), exceeding terminal; umbels 4–6 cm across; bracts absent; rays 3–10; bracteoles squamose, deciduous; umbellules 5–12-flowered. Stylopodium low-conic, base dilated. Fruit ellipsoid, 5–10 × 2–5 mm; lateral ribs narrowly winged; vittae 1 in each furrow, 4–8 on commissure, large. Fl. and fr. May–Jul.

Plants 1.5-2 m tall, branched. Stems 1 or 2, glabrous. Leaves 2-3-pinnate; leaf base inflated, ovate, turgid, c. 10 cm long; leaf segments 1-5 mm long, oval to ovate, hispid. Rays few to numerous. Petals yellow. Fruit elliptic, 8-10 mm long; furrows 1-vittate; commissure 4-8-vittate.

N Xinjiang (Altay, Tacheng) [Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, W Pakistan, Tajikistan; SW Asia (Iran)].

Distribution: Iran, Afghanistan, USSR, W. Pakistan.

Gravelly slopes; 1200–1700 m.

Ferula ovina là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hoa tán. Loài này được (Boiss.) Boiss. mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1872.

羊食阿魏（学名：Ferula ovina）是伞形科阿魏属的植物。分布于俄罗斯、巴基斯坦、阿富汗、伊朗以及中国大陆的新疆等地，一般生于砾石质山坡上，目前尚未由人工引种栽培。