Japanese name: カノツメソウ（鹿の爪草） Scientific name:Spuriopimpinella calycina
[Overview]
A perennial 0.5–1 m tall, growing in woodlands in the mountains.
The stem is slender, erect, and branched in the upper part.
There are basal leaves and leaves alternate on the stem; the basal leaves and the leaves on the lower part of the stem are twice-ternately compound, and the leaves on the upper part of the stem are ternately compound.
The leaves are thin, and the leaflets are broadly ovate to broadly lanceolate, 1.5–5 cm long, gradually tapering to a point, with teeth on the margin of the upper half.
Short hairs grow on the veins on both sides of the leaves.
Compound umbels at the stem tips bear a few small white 5-petaled flowers sparsely.
The inflorescence has short linear bracts and bractlets.
The fruit is an oblong, hairless mericarp.
[Notes]
The name is said to compare the shape of the root to a deer's claw.
