Perilla hirtella ("Toranojiso")

Japanese name: トラノオジソ （虎尾紫蘇）
Scientific name: Perilla hirtella

[Overview]
An annual 20–70 cm tall, found in damp shade and similar places in the mountains.
The stem has 4 ridges and is densely covered with soft hairs.
Leaves are simple and opposite, broadly elliptic, with coarse long hairs on the upper surface.
The leaf margins have fine serrations extending to the base.
The petioles are long and often tinged with reddish purple.
Slender racemes at the branch tips bear many pale pink labiate flowers 4–5 mm long.
The calyx is small, 4 mm long at flowering and 5–6 mm even in fruit.
The flowers have bracts.
The fruit is a schizocarp.

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