bush clover
萩 refers specifically to bush clover, a plant in the pea family known for its small flowers and bushy growth.
萩 combines the plant radical 艹 with 秋 (autumn), likely indicating a plant associated with autumn. The exact historical development is uncertain.
The grass top 艹 sits above 秋 (autumn), so picture a bushy clover plant blooming in autumn fields.
For シュウ, imagine a shoe stepping on a bush clover: shoe -> シュウ, and the clover springs back up.
bush clover; Japanese clover (any flowering plant of genus Lespedeza)
reedy field
rice ball coated with sweetened red beans, soybean flour or sesame
leafy lespedeza (Lespedeza cyrtobotrya)
Russian false yellow lupine (Thermopsis lupinoides)
Sendaihagi
two-leaf vetch (Vicia unijuga)
bush clover blossoming in the summer (esp. Lespedeza thunbergii)
dwarf milkwort (Polygala japonica)
Thunberg's lespedeza (Lespedeza thunbergii)
shrubby lespedeza (Lespedeza bicolor)
Lespedeza buergeri (species of bush clover)
Lysimachia fortunei (species of loosestrife)
woolly lespedeza (Lespedeza tomentosa) (species of flower)
white bush clover
Lythrum anceps (species of loosestrife)
bush clover (that blossoms in the autumn)
Akihagijō (10C poem by Ono Michikaze, regarded as the first hiragana text)
telegraph plant (Codariocalyx motorius); semaphore plant; dancing plant
Hagi Rebellion (1876)