Perennial herbs (grow for several years from their same root system) found in forests in mountains. Fine hair on stems is sticky at a touch. Flowers are 1 cm long, pink and blooms randomly on flower stems (flower stems without leaves) are about 30 cm grow from tips of stems or petioles. Five to seven leaves alternate on stems like feather of birds. Each leaf of compound leaves is long egg-shaped and about 10 cm. The Japanese name Fuji-kanzo literally meaning wisteria sweetroot was named because flowers resemble wisteria and leaves resemble sweetroot. After flowering bear fruits called loment, an indehiscent legume (break apart into indehiscent, seed-bearing segment). Ripen fruits are brown and have densely hook-shaped hair which is carried by animals or clothes. The shape of loment is two-segmented half-moon shaped and about 2cm long, twice as large as the size of the similar plant desmodium podocarpum subsp. oxyphyllum.

●Season　　August to about September
●Height　　about 50 cm to 1.5 m
●Place　　Trail 1 to 2, Trail 4 to 6, Mt. Inari, Ura-Takao, Oku-Takao