Ainsliaea dissecta ("Enshuhaguma")

Japanese name: エンシュウハグマ （遠州羽熊）
Scientific name: Ainsliaea dissecta

[Overview]
A perennial 10–30 cm tall, growing in dry shade in the mountains.
The rhizomes creep.
The leaves are numerous and alternate, somewhat whorled on the lower half of the stem, 2.3–6.5 cm long, and palmately divided deeply into 3–5 lobes.
The lobes are further divided or have serrated margins.
The leaf stalks are 2.5–8.5 cm long.
Racemes or compound racemes at the stem tips bear flower heads about 8 mm across.
Each flower head has 3 florets; the florets are white to pale pink, and the petals are twisted like a pinwheel.
The fruit is an achene with a pappus.

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