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Salvia nipponica Miq.






Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

Salvia L. (アキギリ)
Kibana-akigiri (キバナアキギリ, 黄花秋桐), Japanese woodland sage
Lifeform: 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
索引

Salvia nipponica in Japan


ST1 ST2 ST3
[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.

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