Aegopodium is a plant genus of the family Apiaceae native to Europe and western Asia.

The most well-known member is the Aegopodium podagraria, the ground elder also known as snow-on-the-mountain, Bishop's weed, goutweed, native to Europe and Asia.

Small, white, five-petal flowers are held about three feet high, above the leaves, in flat topped clusters.

Regarded as an ecological threat, goutweed is aggressive, invasive and forms dense patches reducing species diversity in the ground layer.

Plants from this genus are frost hardy but drought tender, preferring moist well-drained soil in an open sunny position.