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Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
HOME > Plant list (植物リスト) > Lamiaceae (Labiatae) (シソ科) > Salvia nipponica
Salvia L. (アキギリ)Kibana-akigiri (キバナアキギリ, 黄花秋桐), Japanese woodland sageLifeform: perennial forb ≈ 20-50 cm tall Distribution: endemic to Japan (south to Honshu Island) Habitat: typically found in moist, shaded, lowland forests |
Use: edible (young shoots) var. formosana (Hayata) Kudo (タイワンアキギリ), Taiwan var. kisoensis K. Imai (キソキバナアキギリ), Mikawa District var. trisecta (Matsum. ex Kudo) Honda (ミツデコトジソウ), discarded |
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[1-3] at a foot of Mount Kakuda (角田山) in the former Maki Town, Niigata Prefecture, central Honshu, collected on October 17 1990. The specimens are kept in SAPS.