Plant: Plant 4-20 cm, perennial, taprooted, with leafless stalk above taproot or not, glabrous; Stem (above leafless stalk) 0 Leaves: mostly basal; petiole 2-7 cm; blade 1-8.5 cm, oblong-ovate, 2-pinnately or ternate-pinnately dissected, glaucous, fleshy, segments 0.5-6 mm, ± indistinct INFLORESCENCE: umbels compound, terminal; peduncles = or > leaves, 2-14 cm; bracts greenish or purplish, scarious, many-veined, forming a shallow sheath or cup; bractlets like bracts; fertile rays 1-5, 0.5-2.5 cm; pedicels < 1 mm Flowers: many, small; calyx lobes prominent to 0; corolla purplish; petals oblong to obovate, white, yellow, or purple, tips narrowed; stamens 5; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 2-chambered Fruit: Fruit: 2 dry, 1-seeded halves that separate from each other but generally remain attached for some time to a central axis, 8-17 mm wide, oblong-ovate to ovate; ribs subequal, wings 2-3 X body in width; oil tubes per rib-interval 3-9; Seed: face flat to longitudinally concave or grooved Misc: Sandy and rocky (limestone-) slopes; 630-1500 m.; Mar-Apr