Japanese name: タカネヤハズハハコ（高嶺矢筈母子） Scientific name:Anaphalis lactea
[Overview]
A perennial growing in dry grasslands in high mountains.
It spreads by extending its rhizomes.
It produces non-flowering stems bearing large leaves and flowering stems bearing flowers.
The stems and leaves are covered with grayish white cottony hairs.
The leaves of the non-flowering stems stand upright and are oblanceolate, 6–12 cm long and 1–2 cm wide.
The flowering stems are about 10–20 cm tall; the leaves are lanceolate, 4–6 cm long and about 1 cm wide, with the base running down the stem to form wings, and the leaves on the lower part of the stem are smaller.
The leaves are entire.
It is dioecious.
Flower heads about 1 cm across are clustered in corymbs or heads at the branch tips.
The flower heads are pale yellow and surrounded by dry, papery white involucral bracts, whose bases are tinged with crimson.
The fruit is an oblong achene.
