Japanese name: ヒメウズ（姫烏頭） Scientific name:Semiaquilegia adoxoides
[Overview]
A perennial 12–35 cm tall, found along roadsides, in grasslands and at woodland edges.
The whole plant is delicate and soft.
The tuber is elliptical, upright, about 1–5 cm long and 0.5–1.2 cm across.
The stem branches in the upper part, bears soft hairs, and is tinged with red.
There are basal leaves and stem leaves; several basal leaves are produced, each a ternately compound leaf 1.5–5 cm long and 1.5–7 cm wide.
The leaflets are fan-shaped to ovate, 1.5–3 cm in both length and width, deeply 3-lobed, with the lobes further divided shallowly.
The basal leaves have petioles 3–14 cm long.
The stem bears 2–3 alternate leaves, which are ternately compound and 1.5–3 cm in both length and width.
The stem leaves have either no petiole or a short petiole that clasps the stem.
A cyme bears 3–5 flowers that bloom facing downward.
The flowers are about 0.5 cm across; the 5 petals are pale yellow and tubular, and the 5 petal-like sepals are white to pale pinkish red.
The petals have a very short spur.
The fruit is a follicle borne facing upward.
[Uses]
It is poisonous, but the tuberous root is used medicinally.
