Japanese name: ミツバコンロンソウ(三葉崑崙草) Scientific name:Cardamine anemonoides
[Overview]
A perennial found in forests in the mountains.
It has a short, creeping rhizome.
The stem is 5–25 cm tall and unbranched.
Leaves are alternate and trifoliate; the leaves on the lower part of the stem are reduced to small ones, and those on the upper part are sometimes simple.
The leaflets are ovate-lanceolate, 1–6 cm long, with coarsely toothed margins.
Both sides of the leaves are hairy.
Flowers are borne 1–7 in short racemes and are white with four petals.
The petals are obovate, 6–10 mm long.
There are 6 stamens.
The fruit is a silique 3–4.5 cm long.
Inside the fruit, many oblong seeds about 1 mm long are arranged in a single row.