(First upload on October 3 2023. Last on September 25 2024) [ 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) > Cyperaceae (カヤツリグサ科) > Cyperus cyperoides
Cyperus L. (カヤツリグサ)Inukugu (イヌクグ, 犬莎草), Pacific island flatsedgeLife form: perennial sedge ≈ 30-80 cm tall, treated as a weed Distribution: Africa - India - China - Indonesia - Taiwan - southern Korea - Japan (south to Kanto District, Kinki and Chugoku Districts) Habitat: dry grassland in lowlands |
Chromosome number: 2n = 82, 88, 134, 220 or 224 Synonyms:
Mariscus umbellatus Vahl |
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[1-3] at a viewspot to see Fudeshima Island in Izu-Oshima Island (伊豆大島) on June 7 2023. [4-6] in the backyard of the office building for Wakayama Experimental Forest of Hokkaido University, western Japan, on June 25 2024.