Japanese name: ハマウド（浜独活） Scientific name:Angelica japonica
[Overview]
A perennial growing by the sea.
The stem is 100–150 cm tall, thick, and branches well in the upper part.
The stem is tinged with purple.
The leaves are alternate, 1–2 times ternately pinnately compound; the leaflets are ovate, further lobed, with fine serrations along the margins.
The leaves are rather thick, with a glossy, hairless surface.
The leaf stalk is slightly swollen.
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.
