Chaerophyllum eriopodum

Chaerophyllum eriopodum is a perennial herb in the carrot family Apiaceae, one of the 35 to 69 currently accepted species of Chaerophyllum distributed across Europe, Asia, North America and northern Africa. Like other species of the genus it is characterized by a stout taproot, finely divided pinnate to bipinnate or tripinnate leaves with deeply incised segments, hollow furrowed stems, and compound umbels of small white or pale-pink five-petaled flowers, the fruit a narrow elongate schizocarp that splits at maturity into two ribbed mericarps. The specific epithet refers to the woolly-pubescent base of the plant (eriopodum, woolly-footed). The species is poorly documented in English-language botanical literature and lacks a dedicated Wikipedia entry; it has been treated locally within regional floras of the western United States or Asia depending on circumscription.