Japanese name: オオハコベ（大繁縷） Scientific name:Stellaria bungeana
[Overview]
A perennial 30–80 cm tall, growing at waterside sites in mountain areas.
The stem is erect and branches in the lower part, with soft hairs and glandular hairs on one side.
Leaves are simple and opposite, ovate to ovate-oblong, 4–8 cm long and 2–3 cm wide, with a pointed tip, and hairs on the main veins and margins on both surfaces.
The leaves on the lower part of the stem have short petioles.
Large cymes at the stem tips have soft hairs and glandular hairs on one side of the flower stalks.
The flowers are white with 5 petals, and the petals are about 7 mm long and deeply 2-lobed.
The fruit is a spherical capsule.
The seeds are round, 1.5 mm across and black, with dense short cylindrical projections on the surface.
