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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

(Update on June 28 2008. Revise on Sept. 7 2009)

Lanceleaf tickseed
Coreopsis lanceolata L. [Asteraceae]

Ookinkeigiku (オオキンケイギク, 大金鶏菊)

Lifeform: perennial forb
Distribution: Native to North America (exotic to Japan, assigned as an invasive alien species by the Invasive Alien Species Act Law of Japan)
Habitat: roadsides, riverbeds, etc.


Coreopsis lanceolata in Japan

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[Left] The photos were taken in Nagaoka Municipal Skislope, Niigata Prefecture, on August 31, 1990. [Right] at a roadside of N30/E4, East Ward, Sapporo, on August 30 2009. Looks like a garden flower.


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