Japanese name: オオバセンキュウ（大葉川芎） Scientific name:Angelica genuflexa
[Overview]
A perennial growing in slightly moist places in the mountains.
The stem is erect and 60–180 cm tall, zigzags at the points where the leaves are attached, and branches in the upper part.
The leaves are alternate, 1–2 times ternately pinnately compound, and the leaflets are long ovate to broadly lanceolate with serrated margins.
The leaves are thin, and the leaf axis arches downward.
The base of the leaf stalk is swollen and sheath-like.
Large compound umbels at the stem tips bear many small white 5-petaled flowers.
The inflorescence has no involucral bracts but has several bractlets.
The fruit is a flattened broadly oblong mericarp with wide wings on both sides.
