Japanese name: ソクシンラン（束心蘭） Scientific name:Aletris spicata
[Overview]
A perennial 30–50 cm tall, found in sunny grasslands and similar places.
It has a short rhizome.
The leaves are basal, linear, 10–30 cm long, and numerous.
The leaves have 3 veins.
A spike 15–20 cm long at the tip of the flower stalk bears many small flowers.
The flowers are white or pale pink with 6 tepals, and the base of the flower is fused into an urn shape.
Curled white hairs grow on the flower stalks and the outside of the flowers.
The fruit is an obovate capsule.
[Notes]
The Japanese name is said to derive from the leaves resembling those of an orchid and the flower stalk emerging from the center of the cluster of leaves.
