Teucrium viscidum var. miquelianum("Tsurunigakusa")
Japanese name: ツルニガクサ（蔓苦草） Scientific name:Teucrium viscidum var. miquelianum
[Overview]
A perennial 20–60 cm tall, found in moist places in forests in the mountains.
It has slender creeping stems underground.
The stem is covered with fine downward-pointing hairs.
Leaves are simple and opposite, oblong, 4–10 cm long and 1.5–5 cm wide, with pointed tips.
The leaf margins have teeth.
At the stem tip it produces a false raceme 3–10 cm long, which bears flowers densely, turned to one side.
The flowers are pale pink and two-lipped.
The upper lip is very small and deeply divided into 2 lobes.
The lower lip is 3-lobed, with a larger central lobe.
There are 4 stamens, which stick out far through the split in the upper lip together with the pistil.
The calyx has glandular hairs, but the amount of hair varies by region.
The calyx teeth curve inward when in fruit.
The fruit is a schizocarp.
