Plant Encyclopedia
Lloydia triflora ("Hosobanoamana")
Japanese name: ホソバノアマナ (細葉甘菜)
Scientific name: Lloydia triflora
[Overview]
A perennial 10–25 cm tall, found in grasslands and similar places from lowlands to mountains.
It has an elliptic bulb about 1 cm long.
Usually a single leaf grows from the base; it is linear, 10–20 cm long and 0.1–0.3 cm wide.
Several leaves are also borne alternately on the flower stem.
The tip of the flower stem bears 1–5 flowers.
The flowers are white, 6-petaled and funnel-shaped; the tepals have pale green veins and no glands at the base.
There are 6 stamens.
The fruit is a capsule.
Details
Names
Japanese: ホソバノアマナ(細葉甘菜)、ホソバアマナ(細葉甘菜)
Life form
Perennial
Habit
Terrestrial
Similar plants
Flowering season
April, May, June
Distribution or origin
Japan (Hokkaido to Kyushu), Korea, northeastern China, Ussuri, Kamchatka, Sakhalin, Kuril Islands
Height
100–250 mm
Leaf shape
Linear
Leaf arrangement
Alternate, Basal
Flower color
White
Leaf color
Green
Translated from our Japanese encyclopedia. If anything differs, the Japanese page is correct.
