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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 Feb. 20 2009. Last on February 14 2012)

Bluntleaf sandwort
Moehringia lateriflora (L.) Fenzl [Caryophyllaceae]

Ooyamafusuma (オオヤマフスマ, 大山衾)

Lifeform: deciduous, perennial forb
Distribution: widespread in the Northern Hemisphere, including Japan
Habitat: grasslands, seasides, and others
Chromosome number: 2n = 48


Genus Moehringia L. (sandworts)

Twenty-seven species in the world (widespread in the Northern Hemisphere)
Two species in Japan

M. lateriflora (L.) Fenzl (オオヤマフスマ)
M. trinervia (L.) Clairv. (タチハコベ): petal < sepal, occasionally no petals


Moehringia lateriflora in Hokkaido

ST1 ST2
ST3 ST4
[1] a small patch at Zenibako Coast on May 29 2011. [2] Along a paved road near the entrance of Goshiki Spa, Niseko, on June 26 2006. [3-4] at N11/W5 along Hokudai Street on June 6 2011. (Discarded photo: at Kagami Swamp Park, Teshio, on September 15 2010.)

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