Japanese name: ミヤマリンドウ（深山竜胆） Scientific name:Gentiana nipponica var. nipponica
[Overview]
A perennial 3–15 cm tall, found in moist places in the alpine zone.
It has no rhizome.
The stem is tinged reddish purple, creeps for a long way at the base, and sends out slender runners from the nodes.
The stem has four low ridges.
Leaves are simple and opposite, ovate-oblong, 0.5–1.2 cm long, and thick.
One to several flowers are borne facing upward on the upper part of the stem.
The corolla is tubular-bell-shaped, 1.5–2.2 cm long, 5-lobed at the tip, and bluish purple.
Narrowly triangular appendages develop between the corolla lobes, and the tips of the appendages are irregularly cut.
Both the corolla lobes and the appendages spread flat.
The fruit is a capsule.
