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Shiro TSUYUZAKI
Plant community ecology / Environmental conservation

Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

(First update on Sept. 29 2009. Last on July 19 2011)

Sweet woodriff
Asperula odorata L. [Rubiaceae]

Kurumabasou (クルマバソウ, 車葉草)

Lifeform: deciduous perennial forb
Distribution: North Africa - Europe / Korea - Sakhalin - Japan (Honshu - Hokkaido)
Habitat: forest floor


Asperula L. in Japan

Three species.

A. odorata L. (クルマバソウ)
A. orientalis Boiss. et Hohen. (タマクルマバソウ) [exotic to Japan]
A. trifida Makino (ウスユキムグラ) [not in Hokkkaido]


Asperula odorata in Hokkaido Univesity Campus

ST1 ST2
ST3 ST4
[1-2] Fowers at the Keiteki-no-mori Forest on May 21 2009. [3-4] the same location on May 26 2011.


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