Pimpinella tragium

Pimpinella tragium is a slender perennial herb in the carrot family Apiaceae native to dry rocky slopes, stony pastures and limestone outcrops around the Mediterranean basin and east through Anatolia and the Caucasus into Iran and central Asia. Plants form a basal rosette of finely divided pinnate or bipinnate leaves with small narrowly ovate to linear segments arising from a stout woody taproot, and produce branched flowering stems 20 to 60 centimeters tall bearing compound umbels of numerous small white (rarely pinkish) flowers in summer. The fruit is an ovoid, finely ribbed, often pubescent schizocarp typical of the genus. Several subspecies are recognized across the species' range. The aromatic root contains essential oils similar to those of the cultivated burnet saxifrage Pimpinella saxifraga.