Pink-colored thigh

The species range covers the North Caucasus , Transcaucasia , Asia Minor and Iran .

It grows in subalpine meadows .

The rhizome is short, ascending. Stem 20-100 cm tall, finely pubescent, branched , ribbed in the lower half.

The basal leaves are oblong in shape, 3-5 cm wide, with a petiole 10–20 cm long, simply pinnate, on shorter petioles that immediately turn into an enlarged, whitish or purple-colored vagina , leaf lobes are widely ovate or oblong, acute or blunt, coarsely notched, serrated, sometimes almost lobed. Lower leaves on short petioles; the upper ones are 1.5–2.4 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, sessile, smaller and more strongly incised, almost twice-feathery, with oblong-linear segments.

Umbrellas with 10-20 smooth, almost identical in length rays, 2.5-5 cm across; no wrappers or wrappers; pedicels are less hairy; petals pink-purple, rarely white.

The fruits are glabrous, ovate, 2.5 mm long, 1.2 mm wide, the pillar is almost round.

Species The pink-colored thigh is part of the genus Pimpinella of the family Umbrella ( Apiaceae ) of the order Umbrella- flowers ( Apiales ).

• Genus 1014. Hip - Pimpinella L. // Flora of the USSR : 30 tons / started at hand. and under chap. ed. V. L. Komarova . - M .; L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1950. - T. 16 / ed. volumes B.K. Shishkin . - S. 430. - 648 p. - 3500 copies.