Aegopodium alpestre Ledeb.

Plants (20–)30–100 cm. Roots fibrous from an elongate, slender rootstock. Stem hollow. Basal petioles 5–13 cm; blade broad-triangular in outline, 3–9 × 3.5–12 cm, ternate-2-pinnate; ultimate segments long-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 1.5–3.5 × 0.7–2 cm, sessile, base cuneate, irregularly sharp-serrate, apex acute to acuminate. Umbels 3–8 cm across; peduncles 7–15 cm; rays 9–17, 2–4.5 cm; umbellules 10–15 mm across, many-flowered; pedicels 3–10 mm, unequal. Petals white. Styles 2–3 × stylopodium. Fruit oblong or oblong-ovoid, 3–3.5 × 1.8–2.5 mm. Fl. and fr. Jun–Aug.

It is a cold temperate plant. It occurs naturally in low mountain regions in Japan. In north China it grows between 900-2,200 m above sea level.

The young shoots are cooked and eaten. They are cooked with flour, in soups and for pickles.

Plants can be grown from seed or by division of the clumps.