Nudicaulis: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this species. 

	plants scapose, leaves and peduncle arising from the rootstock; NOT [plants with leafy stems]
	plants glabrous

Aralia: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora  and Flora of Alberta leading to this genus. 

	herb; NOT [shrub with thorny stems]
	leaves compound; NOT [leaves simple]
	leaf ternate and 3-5 foliolate; NOT [leaves lobed]
	carpels 5; NOT [carpels 2]
	fruit blackish at maturity; NOT [fruit red at maturity]

Umbelliferae: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora  leading to this family. 

	herbs; NOT [shrubs or trees]
	plants terrestrial or semiaquatic; NOT [plants aquatic, leaves submerged or floating]
	plants NOT with colored milky juice
	plants with more than one normal leaf
	some or all leaves alternate; NOT [leaves opposite, whorled, or basal]
	leaves without stipules, or having glands; NOT [leaves with stipules]
	flowers in umbels
	parts of flowers mostly in fives; NOT [parts of flowers in twos or fours]
	flowers with two floral rings, and with each petal distinct from the others]
	calyx regular; NOT [calyx irregular, some sepals smaller than others]
	stamens 10 or fewer; NOT [stamens usually more than 10]
	ovary inferior
	styles 5; NOT [styles 2]
	fruit fleshy