Peucedanum kerstenii member of the Apiaceae

Apiaceae

The Apiaceae , commonly known as carrot or parsley family, is a group of mostly aromatic plants with hollow stems. The family is large, with more than 3,700 species spread across 434 genera, it is the sixteenth largest family of flowering plants...

 or carrot family and species of the genus Peucedanum

Peucedanum

Peucedanum is a genus of flowering plant in the carrot family, Apiaceae.-Species:It contains the following species:* Peucedanum angustisectum* Peucedanum camerunensis* Peucedanum cervaria* Peucedanum formosanum Hayata -...

makes its home among the giant groundsels (Dendrosenecio

Dendrosenecio

Dendrosenecio is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae. It is a segregate of Senecio, in which it formed the subgenus Dendrosenecio...

) atop of the mountains of Eastern Africa: Mount Kilimanjaro

Mount Kilimanjaro

Kilimanjaro, with its three volcanic cones, Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira, is a dormant volcano in Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania and the highest mountain in Africa at above sea level .-Geology:...

, Mount Kenya

Mount Kenya

Mount Kenya is the highest mountain in Kenya and the second-highest in Africa, after Kilimanjaro. The highest peaks of the mountain are Batian , Nelion and Point Lenana . Mount Kenya is located in central Kenya, just south of the equator, around north-northeast of the capital Nairobi...

, Ruwenzori Mountains and the Virunga Volcanoes.

Peucedanum kerstenii is a shrub

Shrub

A shrub or bush is distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and shorter height, usually under 5–6 m tall. A large number of plants may become either shrubs or trees, depending on the growing conditions they experience...

like "large hardy perennial" umbel

Umbel

An umbel is an inflorescence which consists of a number of short flower stalks which are equal in length and spread from a common point, somewhat like umbrella ribs....

 that grows to be 2 meters (6 - 7 feet) tall and found on the Ruwenzori Range

Ruwenzori Range

The Rwenzori Mountains, previously called the Ruwenzori Range , and sometimes the Mountains of the Moon, is a mountain range of central Africa, often referred to as Mt...

 in woodlands at altitudes of 3,500 - 4,200 meters (11,000 - 14,000 feet), and on the slopes of all the larger mountains mixed with Hagenia abyssinica.