Japanese name: ジャコウオランダフウロ（麝香阿蘭陀風露） Scientific name:Erodium moschatum
[Overview]
An annual or biennial 10–50 cm tall, found along sunny roadsides and in fields.
The whole plant has a musk-like fragrance.
It is densely hairy, with glandular hairs mixed in.
There are basal leaves and stem leaves; the basal leaves are oblong-lanceolate, 20 cm long, and odd-pinnately compound, with ovate leaflets that have coarse teeth or are cut.
The stem leaves are usually opposite and odd-pinnately compound.
Long flower stalks extend from the leaf axils and bear 5–12 flowers in an umbel.
The flowers are reddish purple, 5-petaled, and about 2 cm across.
The fruit is a long beaked capsule.
[History]
Murata Gen reported it based on a specimen collected by Ota Hisatsugu in Tsu, Mie in 1957.
