Japanese name: ヒメキランソウ（姫金瘡小草） Scientific name:Ajuga pygmaea
[Overview]
A perennial no more than 5 cm tall, found on rocky places and roadsides near the coast.
The stems are slender, radiate outward and creep along the ground, producing roots from the nodes.
The leaves grow in rosette-like clusters at the nodes or opposite on the flower stalks; they are lanceolate, 2–4 cm long and 0.5–1 cm wide, with a few wavy teeth.
The leaf base narrows and runs into a leaf stalk 1.5–3 cm long.
The flowers are borne 1–3 at a time in the axils of the opposite leaves on flower stalks 2–5 cm long, or singly in the axils of the leaves clustered in rosettes on the stem.
The solitary flowers have stalks 0.3–0.8 cm long, and the flowers on the flower stalks also have very short stalks.
The flowers are bluish purple and lipped, with the upper lip 2-lobed and the lower lip 3-lobed with a large central lobe.
