[3][4] It is Glabrous (lacking surface ornamentation such as hairs, scales or bristles; smooth).

[2] It has cauline (borne on an aerial stem) leaves, which are simple or once pinnately compound and they are subfleshy or subcoriaceous (slightly leathery).

[5][6][7] The flowers are terminal (at the ends of stems),[5] it has simple bracts,[4] which are narrow-linear in shape and folicaeous (resembling a leaf or leaves).

[3] It bears large quantities of white flower heads that have a great resemblance to that of 'Queen Anne’s Lace' (or Ammi majus).

[4] The female flowers have conspicuous petals and rudimentary staminodes (a sterile stamen).

[3] After flowering, it produces a seed capsule/ fruit, which is ovate-elliptsoid in shape and slightly compressed dorsally or subterete (not precisely cylindrical).

[3] The vittae (an oil tube) is large and has a resin canal (vallecular), commissural (has 2 faces).

[8] Both species of Scandia have been used by the Dutch garden designer and author, Piet Oudolf.