Minuartia arctica var. hondoensis("Takanetsumekusa")
Japanese name: タカネツメクサ（高嶺爪草） Scientific name:Minuartia arctica var. hondoensis
[Overview]
A perennial 3–7 cm tall, found on gravelly and rocky ground in alpine zones.
It grows in a mat.
There are both non-flowering and flowering stems, with glandular hairs on the upper part.
Leaves are opposite, needle-shaped, 8–15 mm long and 0.5–0.8 mm wide, with 1 vein and a small projection at the base.
Flowers are solitary at the tips of the flowering stems, white, 5-petaled, about 1 cm across.
The petals are twice as long as the sepals and shallowly 2-lobed at the tip.
The sepals are narrowly elliptic with 3 veins.
The fruit is a capsule 8–10 mm long.
The seeds have no projections and are smooth.
