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(First upload on December 4 2003. Last on December 4 2012) [ 日本語 | English ]

Chimaphila umbellata (L.) W. Barton






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

Chimaphila Pursh (ウメガサソウ)
Ooumegasasou (オオウメガサソウ, 大梅笠草), pipsissewa (umbellate wintergreen) (The other common names: prince's pine, waxflower, wintergreen
Lifeform: perennial shrub
Distribution: boreal regions in the Northern Hemisphere

The southern limit of distribution in Japan: Ibaragi Prefecture, Kanto District
A few specimens have been stored in The Hokkaido University Museum (SAPS)

Habitat: dry woodlands, or sandy soil

Flora on Mount Koma
RDB: near-threatened

Comprising circumboreal complex
ssp. domingensis (S.F. Blake) Dorr (Dominican Republic)
ssp. mexicana (DC.) Hultén (Mexico)
var. umbellata (Eurasia) = This is on Mount Koma.
var. occidentalis (Rydb.) Blake (western North America)
var. cisatlantica Blake (eastern North America)
var. acuta (Rydb.) Blake (Arizona and New Mexico)
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Chimaphila umbellata in Hokkaido


Koma1 Koma2 Koma3
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[1-4] on Mount Koma. [1] on July 21 2001 (JH Titus). [2] the establishment is often facilitated by a Salix reinii patch. [3] a clonal patch. [3] close-up of a shoot. [2-4] On the summit area of Mount Koma on July 21 2011. More than ten years have passed! [5/6] at a hill, southeast from Utonaito Swamp, central Hokkaido, on July 16 2012. Records: on the summit of Mount Koma on June 18 2022.

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