Pimpinella diversifolia DC.

This widespread and very variable species has reputed medicinal value in C China.

A common and a very variable species found in the hills from 1500-3000 m.

Plants perennial, 30–200 cm, pubescent throughout. Roots fibrous. Stem solitary, branched. Basal petioles 2–13 cm; blade ternate, leaflets ovate-cordate, 1.5–6 × 1–5 cm, margins coarsely serrate, rarely simple or 1-pinnate. Cauline leaves reduced upwards, 1-pinnate or 3-lobed, lobes narrow, lanceolate, often lacerate. Umbels 3–7 cm across; bracts 1–5, lanceolate, or absent; rays 6–15(–30), 1–4 cm; bracteoles 1–8, linear, 1–2 mm, shorter than pedicels; umbellules 3–6 mm across, 6–20-flowered; pedicels 1–3 mm, unequal. Calyx teeth obsolete. Petals white, obovate, hairy abaxially, base cuneate, apex with incurved lobule. Stylopodium conic; styles ca. 2–3 × stylopodium. Fruit ovoid, 1.3–1.6 × 1.3–1.6 mm, base cordate, surface shortly papillose-pubescent; vittae 2–3 in each furrow, 4–6 on commissure. Seed face plane. Fl. May–Sep, fr. Aug–Nov.

Perennial, pubescent, up to 1 m tall. Basal leaves sometimes simple, undivid¬ed, ovate to cordate; margin serrate; cauline leaves pinnate; leaflets 3-5, lanceo¬late to oval or ovate, margin serrate to laciniate. Involucral bracts lacking. Rays 5-20, 1-2.5 cm long, pubescent. Involucel of 4-6 linear bractlets or lacking. Petals white, outer larger. Fruit ovate to ovoid, 2 mm long, glabrous to puberu¬lous or pubescent; ridges not prominent; furrows 2-3-vittate; commissure 4-vittate. Inner seed face plane.

Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Qinghai, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Xinjiang, Yunnan, Zhejiang [Afghanistan, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Japan, Kashmir, Nepal, Pakistan, Sikkim, Vietnam].

Distribution: Afghanistan, Himalayas in W. Pakistan and India extending to China and Japan.

Forests, forest margins, montane thickets, montane scrub and grasslands, grassy slopes, streamsides; 200–3300 m.

Aegopodium burttii is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to northern Pakistan. An annual, it is found above the tree line.