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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 Janurary 21 2012)

Indian goosegrass
Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn. [Poaceae]

Ohishiba (オヒシバ, 雄日芝)

Life form: annual grass
Distribution: temperate and tropical regions, including south of Honshu, Japan (not in Hokkaido)
Habitat: sunny sites, such as grassland and roadsides


Eleusine indica in Japan

Species in this genus is not distributed in Hokkaido.

ST1 ST2
ST3 ST4
At Yodogawa Riverside Park, Osaka, on October 29 2011.


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