Japanese name: ヤブタバコ（薮煙草） Scientific name:Carpesium abrotanoides
[Overview]
A biennial, or a monocarpic perennial that dies after flowering and fruiting, 30–100 cm tall, found in thickets and along roadsides in low mountains.
The stem is erect and much branched in a radiating pattern.
There are basal leaves and leaves alternate on the stem; the basal leaves resemble tobacco leaves but have withered by the flowering season.
The stem leaves are simple; the lower ones are elliptic, 15–28 cm long and 5–15 cm wide, and thin in texture.
Both surfaces of the leaf have short hairs, and the underside has glandular dots.
The leaf base runs down into a broadly winged petiole.
The flower heads consist only of yellow tubular florets, are borne pointing downward in the leaf axils, and are sessile.
The involucre is bell-globose, and the involucral bracts are in 3 rows.
The fruit is an achene with a short beak at the tip.
The beak exudes a sticky fluid and has an odor.
[Uses]
The fruits and leaves are used medicinally.
