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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 Dec. 2 2008)

Ground ivy
Glechoma hederacea L. subsp. grandis (A. Gray) Hara
[Lamiaceae (Labiatae)]

Kakidoshi (カキドオシ, 籬通)

Life form: (aromatic) perennial creeping forb
Distribution: China - Twaian - Korea - Japan - Amur - Ussuri
Habitat: favouring moist and shaded sites, and establishing on sunny sites

Varieties

f. albovariegata (Makino) H.Hara (Fuirikakidoshi, フイリカキドオシ)


Glechoma L. in Japan

G. hederacea L.

subsp. hederacea (セイヨウカキドオシ) [for gardening]
subsp. grandis (A. Gray) Hara (カキドオシ)

G. luchuensis (Kudo) Masam. (ヤエヤマスズコウジュ) [in Ryukyu]


Glechoma hederacea in Japan

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In Juo Town (currently Hitachi City), Ibaraki Prefecture, on April 1985.

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In Tomakomai Experimental Forest, HU, on May 21 2003.

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References

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