Japanese name: イブキカモジグサ（伊吹髢草） Scientific name:Elymus caninus
[Overview]
A perennial about 1 m tall, found in Japan only on Mt. Ibuki.
The leaves are linear.
A spike-like inflorescence 6–17 cm long emerges at the stem tip and stands upright, sometimes tinged with purple.
The spikelets are borne alternately, one on each side at each node of the spike, and the glumes are lanceolate with 3 veins.
The awn of the lemma is thin and short, and does not curve outward.
It resembles Inu-kamojigusa, but can be distinguished by the glumes having 5–9 veins and the awn of the lemma being slightly thicker and curving outward when dry.
[History]
It has become naturalized on Mt. Ibuki, which spans Shiga and Gifu.
It is thought to have naturalized there, together with Ibuki-no-endo, Kibana-no-renrinso and others, in the 16th century, when Oda Nobunaga opened a medicinal herb garden at that site.
