Japanese name: ハクサンボウフウ（白山防風） Scientific name:Peucedanum multivittatum
[Overview]
A perennial 30–90 cm tall, growing in grassland and gravelly ground in the subalpine to alpine zones.
The stem is unbranched or has a few branches.
The leaves are alternate and highly variable: ternately compound, pinnately compound, or once- to twice-ternately compound; the leaflets are irregularly cut and have coarse serrations.
Sparse compound umbels at the stem tip bear many small white 5-petaled flowers.
The inflorescence usually has no bracts or bractlets.
The fruit is a mericarp, flattened and oblong, hairless, with 3–5 oil ducts beneath each dorsal groove and 8–9 on the commissural face.
