• Scientific Name: Semiaquilegia adoxoides (DC.) Makino
• Ref: Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 16:119. 1902
• Synonyms:
  • Aquilegia adoxoides (DC.) Ohwi
  • Enemion leveilleanum (Nakai) Nakai
  • Isopyrum adoxoides DC.
  • I. capnoides Fisch. ex DC.
  • I. japonicum Siebold & Zucc.
  • I. leveilleanum Nakai
  • I. tuberosum H.Lév.
  • Semiaquilegia adoxoides var. grandis D.Q.Wang
  • S. dauciformis D.Q.Wang
• Chinese Common Name: 天葵 tiānkuí
• Japanese Common Name: ヒメウズ [姫烏頭] himeuzu
• Family: Ranunculaceae
• Genus: Semiaquilegia
• Distribution: Forests, roadside; 100–1100 m. Anhui, Fujian, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, E Yunnan, Zhejiang [Japan, Korea].

Tuber blackish brown, 1--2 cm, 3--6 mm in diam. Stem 1--5, 10--32 cm tall, 1--2 mm in diam., sparsely white hairy, branched. Basal leaves numerous, sheathed; petiole 3--12 cm; leaf blade ovate, suborbicular, or reniform, 1.2--3 cm, glabrous; leaflets flabellate-rhombic to obovate-rhombic, 0.6--2.5 × 1--2.8 cm, 3-parted; segments 2- or 3-lobed. Stem leaves shortly petiolate, similar to basal leaves but smaller. Bracts oblanceolate to obovate. Flowers 4--6 mm in diam. Pedicel slender, 1--2.5 cm, spreading white pubescent. Sepals white usually tinged with purple, narrowly elliptic, 4--6 × 1.2--2.5 mm, apex acute. Petals spatulate, 2.5--3.5 mm, apex subtruncate. Staminodes white, linear-lanceolate, membranous, glabrous. Follicles ovoid-ellipsoid, 6--7 × ca. 2 mm, striate; striae transversely raised. Seeds ovoid-ellipsoid, ca. 1 mm. Fl. Mar--Apr, fr. Apr--May. (Flora of China)