Japanese name: ミヤマコナスビ(深山小茄子) Scientific name:Lysimachia tanakae
[Overview]
A perennial found in the mountains.
It has creeping underground stems.
The stems are long, creep along the ground, and are covered with brownish soft hairs.
Leaves are simple and opposite, ovate-round, 1–2 cm in both length and width, with a slightly pointed or rounded tip.
The leaves have black glandular dots and glandular streaks.
The petiole is 0.5–1.5 cm long.
Young leaves are covered with soft hairs.
The flowers are solitary in the leaf axils, yellow, 1–1.5 cm across; the corolla is 5-lobed and the lobes are lanceolate-oblong.
The calyx lobes are oblanceolate with rounded tips.
The flower stalk is 1.5–2.5 cm long.
The fruit is a spherical capsule.