Japanese name: ベニバナイチヤクソウ（紅花一薬草） Scientific name:Pyrola asarifolia subsp. incarnata
[Overview]
A perennial 15–25 cm tall, found in cool-temperate to subarctic forests, often growing in colonies.
The leaves are simple and arranged in a rosette, 3–4.5 cm long and 2–3.5 cm wide, round to roundish elliptic, with fine teeth on the margin.
The leaves are longer than they are wide.
The leaf stalk is 3–5 cm long.
A reddish flower stem emerges from among the leaves; the base of the flower stem bears no ordinary leaves but has 1–3 scale leaves.
A raceme bears 8–15 pink flowers; the corolla is broadly bell-shaped and 5-lobed.
There are 10 stamens, with crimson anthers.
There is 1 pistil, longer than the stamens, with a curved style.
The sepals are about twice as long as they are wide.
The fruit is an oblate capsule 0.7 cm in diameter.
