Japanese name: タニギキョウ（谷桔梗） Scientific name:Peracarpa carnosa var. carnosa
[Overview]
A perennial 4–25 cm tall, found in forests in the mountains.
It has a thin rhizome.
The lower part of the stem creeps along the ground, and the upper part rises upright.
The leaves are simple and alternate, ovate-round, 0.3–3.8 cm long, with several rounded teeth on the margins.
The leaf stalk is 0.2–1.7 cm long.
The flowers have slender stalks, are borne singly at the stem tip and in the leaf axils in the upper part of the stem, and open upward.
The flowers are white or tinged with a slightly pale purple, about 0.8 cm across, and funnel-shaped with 5 deep lobes.
There are 5 stamens, and the anthers are white.
The fruit is a capsule borne facing downward.
