Japanese name: チチコグサ（父子草） Scientific name:Euchiton japonicus
[Overview]
A perennial 5–20 cm tall, found along roadsides and on lawns.
It has creeping rhizomes.
Several stems emerge, densely covered with white woolly hairs.
There are basal leaves and leaves alternate on the stem; the basal leaves are numerous, linear, 2.5–10 cm long and 0.4–0.7 cm wide, and remain at flowering time.
The upper surface of the basal leaves is glossy green, and the underside is white with dense woolly hairs.
The leaves on the stem are linear, 2–2.5 cm long and 0.2–0.4 cm wide.
The flower heads are stalkless and gather densely in large numbers at the stem tip, with leaf-like bracts at the base.
The flower heads are tinged with reddish purple.
The involucre is bell-shaped, and the involucral bracts are in 3 rows.
The fruit is an achene with a white pappus.
