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Cardamine anemonoides

Cardamine anemonoides ("Mitsubakonronso")

Japanese name: ミツバコンロンソウ (三葉崑崙草)
Scientific name: Cardamine anemonoides

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.

Details

Names
Japanese: ミツバコンロンソウ(三葉崑崙草)、オオミツバコンロンソウ(大三葉崑崙草)
Life form
Perennial
Habit
Terrestrial
Similar plants
Flowering season
April, May
Distribution or origin
Japan (Honshu: Kanto region and westward to Kyushu)
Height
50–250 mm
Leaf shape
Trifoliate compound leaf
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf margin
Serrate
Inflorescence
Raceme
Number of petals
4
Flower color
White
Leaf color
Green
Designated plants
Endemic to Japan

Translated from our Japanese encyclopedia. If anything differs, the Japanese page is correct.

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