Japanese name: ミヤマウイキョウ（深山茴香） Scientific name:Tilingia tachiroei
[Overview]
A perennial 10–30 cm tall, found on rocky places and gravelly ground in the alpine zone.
The stem is erect and branched in the upper part.
The basal leaves are 1–4 times ternately pinnately compound, and the lobes of the leaflets are needle-like, 0.5–1 mm wide.
Stem leaves are absent or, if present, small, with 1–3 arranged alternately.
The flowers are small, white and 5-petaled, borne densely and in large numbers in compound umbels.
The calyx teeth are lanceolate and persist.
The inflorescence has involucral bracts and involucels.
The fruit is a mericarp.
[Notes]
The Japanese name comes from its growing in the alpine zone and its leaves resembling those of fennel.
