Japanese name: ヤマトキホコリ（山時繁） Scientific name:Elatostema laetevirens
[Overview]
A perennial 10–50 cm tall, growing in damp places in the mountains.
The stem is almost hairless.
The leaves are simple and alternate, 5–10 cm long, and asymmetrical, distorted oblong in shape; they are hairy on both surfaces, the tip is bluntly pointed, and the margin has blunt teeth.
The leaves stay yellowish green even when dried.
There are male and female flowers, both green and very small, mixed together in head-like inflorescences in the leaf axils, but sometimes male inflorescences with a stalk 1–5 cm long arise from the lower nodes.
The involucral bracts of the inflorescence are fused to the tip, and the margin has short hairs.
The fruit is an oblong achene 1 mm long.
