(First upload on December 3 2015. Last on May 30 2020) [ 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) > Apocynaceae (キョウチクトウ科) > Vinca minor
Vinca L. (ツルニチニチソウ)Himetsurunichinichisou (ヒメツルニチニチソウ, 蔓日々草), common periwinkle (USDA), lesser periwinkle, or dwarf periwinkleLifeform: evergreen, trailing, viny subshrub Distribution: native to central and southern Europe, and southwestern Asia Habitat: escaped from gardening |
Cultivars for gardening: many Argenteovariegata, leaves have creamy white margins Atropurpurea, burgundy-purple flowers Azurea Flore Pleno, double blue flowers La Grave (Bowles's Variety or Bowles's Blue), violet flowers |
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[1-3] at Odori Park near the Sosei River on May 19 2014. *: the Broadway Park (大通り公園) in the central Sapporo, established in 1871, for separating the northern and southern halves of the city to prevent from spreading fires. [4/5] beside a building in N15/E1, East Ward, Sapporo, on June 1 2018. [6] in a small garden in front of a cafe in N12/W4, North Ward, Sapporo, on May 9 2020.