Pimpinella calycina Maximowicz var. brachycarpa Komarov, Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 25: 145. 1905; Aegopodium brachycarpum (Komarov) Schischkin; Spuriopimpinella brachycarpa (Komarov) Kitagawa.

Plants perennial, 70–85 cm, essentially glabrous. Root fibrous. Stem 2–3-branched. Basal petioles 6–10 cm; blade ternate, rarely 2-ternate; leaflets pubescent on veins, margins coarsely serrate; lateral leaflets ovate, 3–8 × 4–6.5 cm; terminal leaflets broad-ovate, 5–8 × 4–6 cm. Cauline leaves similar to basal, sessile, 3-lobed, lobes lanceolate. Umbels 3–6 cm across; bracts absent, rarely 1–3, linear, 5–12 mm; rays 7–15, 2–4 cm; bracteoles 2–5, linear, 2–5 mm, shorter than pedicels; umbellules ca. 10 mm across, 15–20-flowered, polygamous; pedicels 2–4 mm. Calyx teeth conspicuous, lanceolate, ca. 0.3 mm. Petals white, obcordate, apex with small incurved lobule. Stylopodium conic; styles 2–3 × stylopodium. Fruit ovoid, ca. 2 × 1.8 mm, base cordate, surface glabrous; vittae 2–3 in each furrow, 6 on commissure. Seed face plane. Fl. Jun–Jul, fr. Aug–Sep.

Forest margins, river banks; 500–900 m. Guizhou, Hebei, Jilin, Liaoning, Shanxi [N Korea, SE Russia].