Japanese name: ヤブタビラコ（薮田平子） Scientific name:Lapsanastrum humile
[Overview]
A biennial found on roadsides, paddy ridges, and grassland.
The stems are 9–50 cm long and either creep along the ground or stand upright.
There are basal leaves and stem leaves.
The basal leaves emerge in large numbers in a rosette, are 3.6–20 cm long, and are pinnately divided with a large terminal lobe.
The stem leaves are alternate.
The flower heads are yellow and borne in corymbs at the stem tips.
The flower heads consist only of 18–20 ray florets, and the tips of the ray florets are finely cut.
There are 8 inner involucral bracts.
After flowering, the flower stalk bends and turns downward.
The fruit is an achene with neither a pappus nor hooks, and its tip is concave.
