Japanese name: ミゾホオズキ（溝酸漿） Scientific name:Mimulus nepalensis
[Overview]
A perennial 10–30 cm tall, found in wet places in the mountains.
The stems are 10–30 cm long and soft, branching and spreading sideways.
The leaves are simple and opposite, 1–4 cm long and 0.5–2 cm wide, ovate to elliptic, and soft.
The leaf margin has a few pointed serrations.
The leaves have petioles.
The flowers are yellow, tubular and two-lipped, 1–1.5 cm long, borne singly in the axils of the upper leaves; the upper lip is 2-lobed and the lower lip is 3-lobed.
The inside of the flower tube has reddish brown spots, and on the lower inner side there are 2 raised ridges densely covered with hairlike projections.
The calyx is tubular, 5-lobed at the tip with a truncate apex, and covered with soft hairs.
The calyx has 5 ridges, which often bear wings.
The flower stalk is slender, 1–2 cm long.
The fruit is an oblong capsule enclosed by the calyx.
[Notes]
The Japanese name derives from its growing in moist places and its fruit resembling that of the hozuki (Chinese lantern plant).
