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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 Dec. 19 2008. Last on August 29 2011)

Candlestick lily
Lilium maculatum Thunb. var. dauricum (Ker Gawl.) Ohwi
[Liliaceae]

Ezosukashiyuri (エゾスカシユリ, 蝦夷透百合)

Lifeform: perennial forb
Distribution: China - Siberia - Sakhalin - Japan (only in Hokkaido)
Habitat: coastal grasslands

Synonyms (confusing epithet)

L. pensylvanicum Ker Gawl. (standard)
L. maculatum Thunb. subsp. dauricum (Ker Gawl.) H. Hara
L. dauricum Ker Gawl. L. sachalinense Vrishcz


Lilium maculatum in Hokkaido

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[Left] At Kamui Cape, western Hokkaido, on June 20 1989. [Center/Right] At the mouth of Teshio River, northern Hokkaido, on June 14 2011.

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