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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 October 1 2009. Last on August 6 2011)

Kenilworth ivy
Cymbalaria muralis P. Gaertn., B. Mey. et Scherb.
[Scrophulariaceae]

APG: Plantaginaceae

Tsutaba-unran (ツタバウンラン, 蔦葉海蘭)

Lifeform: annual herbaceous vine
Origin: Mediterranean Europe (exotic to Japan, recorded in 1912)
Habitat: shady rocks and woods in native regions (escaped from gardening in Japan)

Synonyms

Linaria cymbalaria (L.) Mill.


Cymbalaria muralis in Hokkaido

The native species of Cymbalaria are not distributed in Japan.

ST1 ST2
ST3 ST4
[1] a creeping mat. [2] a patch. [3] a creeping mat. [4] close-up of a flower. [1-2] At N23/W2, North Ward, Sapporo, on August 31 2009. [3-4] Under a hedge at N16/W2 near Fuji Women's University.


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