Japanese name: タテヤマウツボグサ（立山靫草） Scientific name:Prunella prunelliformis
[Overview]
A perennial 20–50 cm tall, found mainly in subalpine to alpine grasslands on the Sea of Japan side.
It is often seen on the Happo-one ridge to Tateyama in the Northern Alps, on Tanigawadake and elsewhere, growing mixed with Miyama-kurumabana, Karaitosou and others.
It does not send out stolons.
Many stems grow in tufts; they are square in cross section and bear curved hairs.
Leaves are simple and opposite, in 5–10 pairs, narrowly ovate to broadly ovate, 3–8 cm long, with a few low teeth on the margins.
There is no petiole, or it is very short.
At the stem tip it bears a dense flower spike 2–5 cm long made up of clustered verticillasters.
The inflorescence has many opposite bracts, and each bract carries 3 flowers.
The flowers are purple, lip-shaped, and 2.5–3.2 cm long, with a hood-shaped upper lip.
The fruit is a schizocarp.
