An annual herbaceous plant with angular stems. The leaves are pinnately compound, with 11-15 wedge-shaped leaflets, notched at the top and with a thin tip. The flowers are in umbels, with 6-8 flowers per umbel. The corolla is yellow, boat-shaped with a beak, with 9 fused stamens and 1 free stamen. The pod is indehiscent, long, flat, and many-seeded. It blooms in May-June. It grows in Crimea and Eastern Transcaucasia.
The plant contains steroid heart glycosides, but is not used in medical practice.