Japanese name: ミヤマオトコヨモギ（深山男蓬） Scientific name:Artemisia pedunculosa
[Overview]
A perennial 15–40 cm tall, found on rocky ground and gravelly areas in high mountains.
It has a long, extending rhizome, and the stems grow in tufts.
The non-flowering stems are short and bear leaves in a rosette.
The rosette leaves are spoon-shaped, 2.7–9 cm long and 1.3–2.3 cm wide, at first covered with silky hairs but later hairless.
The margins of the rosette leaves have notched teeth.
The flower stalk is at first covered with silky hairs, and its leaves are alternate, spoon-shaped, 2.5–6 cm long and 0.6–1.6 cm wide, with notched teeth at the tip.
The leaves on the flower stalk have no petioles.
The flower heads form a raceme or panicle-like spike and hang downward.
The flower heads are hemispherical, 0.8–1 cm across, and have no ray florets.
The fruit is an achene 0.2 cm long.
