Japanese name: マルバコンロンソウ(丸葉崑崙草) Scientific name:Cardamine tanakae
[Overview]
A biennial found in the shade of trees in the mountains.
The stem is 7–20 cm tall, and the stem, leaves and inflorescence are densely covered with white hairs.
The leaves are odd-pinnately compound, 5–13 cm long, with 1–3 pairs of leaflets.
The leaflets have short stalks and are round to ovate; the terminal leaflet is large, 1–3 cm long.
The leaf margins have blunt teeth.
The leaf bases have no auricles.
A short raceme at the top of the stem bears white four-petaled flowers about 1 cm across.
The petals are obovate, 5–7 mm long.
The fruit is a broadly linear silique 18–25 mm long, densely covered with hairs.
The seeds are arranged in a single row in the fruit.