Japanese name: オニシオガマ（鬼塩竈） Scientific name:Pedicularis nipponica
[Overview]
A perennial 40–100 cm tall, found in sunny, moist grasslands from the mountains to the subalpine zone.
White hairs are dense over the whole plant.
The stem is erect and not much branched.
The leaves are clustered at the base, 4–6 in opposite arrangement; they are long ovate, 10–30 cm long and 5–12 cm wide, and pinnately divided to the midrib.
The lobes are broadly lanceolate and further deeply lobed.
The leaf stalk is 10–30 cm long.
The stem tip bears a flower spike 10–20 cm long with sparse flowers, and the spike has stalkless bracts.
The flowers are pink, two-lipped, and 3.5–4 cm long; the upper lip is slightly curved and boat-shaped with a blunt tip, and the lower lip is deeply 3-lobed, spreading, and longer than the upper lip.
The fruit is an ovoid capsule with a beak-like pointed tip.
