(First upload on December 13 2014. Last on September 9 2022) [ 日本語 | English ]
Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
HOME > Plant list (植物リスト) > Asteraceae (キク科) > Carpesium macrocephalum
Carpesium L. (ガンクビソウ)Yabutabako (ヤブタバコ, 藪煙草), carpesium fruitLife form: perennial forb Distribution: northeastern Asia, including the whole of Japan invading to Europe Habitat: satoyama - bush - secondary forest |
Head: 6-8 mm in diameter with short or no stalk ↔ other Carpesium species: with stalk Leaf: dense, short hair → shape similar with tabacco leaf Rosette: large but disappearing when flowering Chromosome number: 2n = 36, or 40 |
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[1] along an unpaved road in Meiji Jingu Shrine, Tokyo, on November 14 2014. [2/3] under transplanted Cercidiphyllum japonicum trees near the Faculty of Education, Hokkaido University, on August 8 2016. [4/5] along Katsura Course in Nopporo Forest Park on July 17 2021. [6] near the former skislope for the Winter Olympic Games on Mount Eniwa beside Shikotsu Lake on August 27 2022.