Plant: Plant 3-15 cm, perennial, taprooted, with leafless stalk above taproot or not, with persistent fibers, glabrous; Stem (above leafless stalk) 0-15 cm Leaves: petiole 1-4 cm; blade 1.2-5 cm, oblong-ovate, 1-2-pinnately (rarely ternate-pinnately) dissected, glaucous, fleshy, segments 1-8 mm, ± indistinct INFLORESCENCE: umbels compound, terminal; peduncles 1.5-7 cm, = or > leaves; bracts white, with 1-5 green or white veins, fused below; bractlets like bracts; fertile rays 3-5, 4-10 mm; pedicels 3-8 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: 2 dry, 1-seeded halves that separate from each other but generally remain attached for some time to a central axis, 8-18 mm wide, widely ovate; ribs subequal, wings 2-3 X body in width; oil tubes per rib-interval 3-4; Seed: face flat to longitudinally concave or grooved Misc: Shrubby slopes; 1300-2200 m.; Mar-May