Eupatorium glehnii; a species of boneset
A perennial plant in the Asteraceae family, native to Japan and East Asia. The name literally means 'four-leaf bulbul'.
Eupatorium glehnii is a perennial plant that grows in moist mountainous areas.
This inflorescence of small white flowers is characteristic of Eupatorium glehnii.
Kanji spelling is rare and mainly encountered in botanical contexts; it but marks the word is listed as usually written in kana.
Formed from 四葉, referring to the leaves commonly arranged four at a node, and 鵯, an abbreviated form of the related plant name 鵯花.