Japanese name: コナスビ（小茄子） Scientific name:Lysimachia japonica var. japonica
[Overview]
A perennial found along roadsides and in grassland.
It has creeping underground stems.
The stem creeps along the ground and is sparsely covered with soft hairs.
The leaves are simple and opposite, broadly ovate, 1–2.5 cm long and 0.7–2 cm wide, with a short pointed tip.
The leaves have translucent glandular dots.
The petiole is 0.5–1 cm long.
The flowers are solitary in the leaf axils, yellow, 0.6–0.7 cm across; the corolla is 5-lobed with broadly ovate lobes.
The calyx lobes are linear-lanceolate with sharply pointed tips.
The flower stalk is 0.3–0.8 cm long.
The fruit is a spherical capsule 0.4–0.5 cm across, sparsely covered with long hairs.
