The 6-pointed flowers (greenish yellow or yellow-green to brown) are replaced later by clusters of deep blue berries. The leaves, divided into 7 to 9 leaflets, suggest meadow-rue. Young plants may have a waxy whitish bloom.

“To come upon a large stand of these plants in the spring, when the bluish-green, lace-like leaves gently quiver in a warm breeze, is absolutely breathtaking and stunning enough to take me to my knees more than once in gratitude and awe.”