形見草

Compound of 形見(かたみ) (katami, “keepsake”) + 草(くさ) (kusa, “grass”). The kusa changes to gusa as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

• IPA^(key): [ka̠ta̠mʲiɡɯ̟sa̠]

形(かた)見(み)草(ぐさ) • (katamigusa) 

1. synonym of 菊 (kiku, “chrysanthemum”)
2. synonym of 銭葵 (zeniaoi, “common mallow”)
3. synonym of 立葵 (tachiaoi, “hollyhock”)
4. synonym of 撫子 (nadeshiko, “carnation, pink”)
5. synonym of 冬葵 (fuyuaoi, “Chinese mallow”)

• “形見草”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎^[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
• “形見草” in Weblio Dictionary.