Scutellaria pekinensis var. transitra("Yamatatsunamiso")
Japanese name: ヤマタツナミソウ（山立浪草） Scientific name:Scutellaria pekinensis var. transitra
[Overview]
A perennial 10–25 cm tall, growing in the shade of trees in the mountains.
The stem is square in cross section and densely covered with upward-pointing white hairs.
It sends slender runners underground.
Leaves are simple and opposite, triangular-ovate, 1.5–4 cm long and 1–3 cm wide, with serrated margins.
Both surfaces of the leaves are covered with coarse hairs.
The petiole is 1–2 cm long.
A raceme 3–6 cm long at the stem tip bears flowers turned to one side.
The inflorescence has glandular hairs.
The corolla is bluish purple and two-lipped; the tube bends about 60 degrees at the base and rises obliquely, the upper lip is helmet-shaped, and the lower lip is 3-lobed and longer than the upper lip.
The fruit is a schizocarp.
