(First upload on July 26 2014. Last on September 17 2015) [ 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) > Gnaphalium spicatum
Gnaphalium L. (ハハコグサ)Urajirochichikogusa (ウラジロチチコグサ, 裏白父子草), shiny cudweed or spiked cudweedLifeform: annual or biennial forb, branching at the base and sprouting by short stolons Distribution: native to the South America (exotic to Japan. not recorded from Hokkaido) |
Habitat: grasslands and disturbed sites, such as roadsides Leaf: face = shiny, back = hairy Chromosome number: 2n = 38 Synonyms:
Gamochaeta coarctata (Willd.) Kerguelen ⇒ when established this genus |
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[1-3] on a wasteland at Yushima Temple (seido), Tokyo, on May 30 2014. [4/5] at the imperial gardens in the former lawn Shiba detached palace, Tokyo, on May 29 2015.