(First upload on August 4 2021. Last on October 10 2023) [ 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) > Poaceae (Gramineae) (イネ科) > Microstegium japonicum
Microstegium Nees, auct. non. Lindb. (アシボソ)M. japonicum (Miq.) Koidz.Sasagaya (ササガヤ, 笹萱, s.l.), East Asian glabrate browntop Lifeform: clump-forming annual grass, with 30-70 cm in height Distribution: China - Korea - Japan Habitat: roadsides, grasslands and forest edges Chromosome number: 2n = 20 var. boreale (Ohwi) Ibaragi et Yonek. (キタササガヤ, 北笹萱) hair on the nodes |
Synonyms (also see Leptatherum):
Microstegium nudum (Trin.) A.Camus var. boreale (Ohwi) Ohwi Sasagaya (ササガヤ, 笹萱, s.s.) Distribution: probably not in Hokkaido (Sato et al. 2022) Leptatherum Nees (ササガヤ), when separatedL. japonicum Franch. et Sav. |
var. boreale (Ohwi) Ibaragi et Yonek. (キタササガヤ) var. japonicum (ササガヤ) |
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[1-3] near the main entrance in Nopporo Forest Park on July 17 2021. [4-6] in an area, where the Otaru-Yoichi wind farm was planned, observed on June 15 2023. Records: along a trail on Mount Kuromatsunai, southern Hokkaido, on June 12 2024.