Eupatorium chinense L.

Herbs, perennial, or small shrubs or subshrubs, (50-)70-100(-250) cm tall. Lower part woody, well branched, stems often purplish red; branches ascending, upper branches and corymb sordid-white puberulent, synflorescence branches and peduncles more densely hairy, glabrescent in lower part by anthesis. Leaves opposite, sessile or subsessile with petiole to 2-4 mm; median stem leaves simple or 3-lobed, ovate or broadly ovate, 4.5-10(-20) × (2-)3-5(-6.5) cm, both surfaces scabrid, white puberulent and glandular, more densely so abaxially and on veins, pinnately veined, veins 3-7-paired, base rounded, margin regularly crenate-serrate, apex acuminate or obtuse; upper stem leaves homomorphic with median leaves, but smaller; radical leaves withered by anthesis, margin irregularly crenate. Synflorescences terminal, of large laxly compound corymbs, 20-30 cm in diam. Capitula numerous, 5-flowered; involucre campanulate, ca. 5 mm; phyllaries 3-seriate, imbricate; outer phyllaries short, ovate or lanceolate-ovate, outside puberulent and sparsely glandular, 1-2 mm; median and inner longer, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, 5-6 mm, apically and marginally white, membranous, glabrous, but with yellow glands; corollas white, pink, red, or reddish purple, ca. 5 mm, with yellow glands. Achenes pale black-brown, elliptic, ca. 3 mm, 5-ribbed, yellow glandular; pappus setae white, ca. 5 mm. Fl. and fr. Jun-Nov. 2n = 20, 30, 31, 39, 40, 50.

Mountains all over Japan. Open and deforested areas at elevations of 2,000-2,600 metres in Nepal. Forest margins on slopes, forests, thickets or grasslands on slopes at elevations of 200-1,900 metres in China.

Young leaves are boiled and eaten with plenty of seasoning. The leaves are also used for seasoning food, especially fish.

It is grown from pieces of the rhizome.