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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 23 2009. Last on October 9 2011)

Osmorhiza aristata (Thunberg) Rydberg
[Apiaceae (Umbelliferae)]

Yabu-ninjin (ヤブニンジン, 藪人参)

Lifeform: perennial forb
Distribution: widespread in east Aisa, including Japan
Habitat: woodlands and low mountains
Chromosome number: 2n = 22

Osmorhiza Raf.

This genus includes one species with one variety in Japan

Varieties

var. montana Makino (ミヤマヤブニンジン)

Synonyms

Chaerophyllum aristatum Thunberg


Osmorhiza aristata in Hokkaido

ST1 ST2
ST3 ST4
[1] an inflorescences at a fruit stage, at Keiteki-no-mori Forest on May 21 2009. [2-4] at Yachidamo Park (Yachidamo = Fraxinus mandshurica), N28W4, West Ward, Sapporo, on May 31 2011.


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