• HOME
  1. 日本語
  2. English
• Personal Info.
  1. CV
  2. For candidates
  3. Give me job!
  4. Recent(?) Photos
  5. Master/doctor theses
• Education
  1. Catalog
  2. HUSTEP
  3. Ecology
  4. Natural env. studies
  5. Environ. conserv.
  6. Field trip for Env. Res.
     
  7. Eco-campus(plants)
  8. Symbiosis in nature
  9. Beadroll
  10. Glossary(References)
• Research
  1. Abstract
  2. Volcanic succession
  3. Wildfire ecology
     
  4. Wetland conservation
  5. Skislope vegetation
  6. Mining
  7. Pub: English
  8. Pub: Japanese
• Hobby · Link
  1. Yoshida
  2. Plant taxonomy
  3. Plants
  4. Cup of tea
  5. Western Australia
  6. Link
  7. Contact

(First upload on May 7 2008. Last on May 19 2019) [ 日本語 | English ]

Gagea L. (キバナノアマナ) Kibata-no-amana (キバナノアマナ, 黄花甘菜), yellow star of Bethlehem (amana means sweet vegetable) Lifeform: spring-ephemeral perennial (flowering starts soon after snow melting) < 30 cm high, developing bulbs Distribution: Europe - Asia, including Japan

Habitat: forest edge, grassland, etc. HUSTEP: Plants and Plant communities in Japan (flora list) RDB: endangered in the many southern prefectures of Japan Chromosome number: 2n = 48 Use: rhizome - edible Synonyms: Gagea sylvatica (Pers.) Loudon.

Gagea lutea in Hokkaido University Campus

---

1 2 3
4 5 6
[1] in the lawn of Faculty of Science of HU on April 16 2019. [2/3] near GSEES building in Hokkaido University Campus. [1] on April 30 2012. [2] on April 22 2008. [3] on April 25 2017. [4] at the Institute of Low Temperature Science, HU, on April 21 2012. [5] near ILTS, HU, on May 10 2013. [6] at a roadside between Japanese archery training house and tennis courts, HU, on March 30 2015. The flowering in this year was about two weeks earlier than usual. Records: at a roadside between Japanese archery training house and tennis courts, HU, on April 7 2021 and April 16 2022. Flowering near the Japanese Archery Training Hall of HU on April 4 2023. Flowering at the backyard of Toya Lake Experimental Station on April 14 2023.