Scabiosa japonica alpina

Scabiosa japonica var.alpina

  • Scabiosa japonica alpina
  • Scabiosa japonica alpina
  • Scabiosa japonica alpina
  • Scabiosa japonica alpina
  • Flower name
    Scabiosa japonica alpina
  • Scientific name
    Scabiosa japonica var.alpina
  • AliasScabiosa japonica alpina, スカビオサ・ジャポニカ・アルピ−ナ, 高嶺松虫草, ミヤママツムシソウ
  • Place of originJapan
  • Place of floweringHigh mountain
  • Flowering seasonJune, July, August, September

What is Scabiosa japonica alpina

Scabiosa japonica Alpina is cold-resistant biennial plant of the of the family Dipsacaceae . It is for the high mountain version of Scabiosa Japonica and and Alpina has a bigger flower than Japonica .The plant grows wild in a collapse or the stone place of the high mountain from Honshu to Shikoku in Japan. It makes flowers of the heliotrope bloom in the inflorescence taken out a flower stalk from the interval of the radical growths feather leaves which edge was split in.

General name:Scabiosa japonica alpina ,scientific name: Scabiosa japonica var. alpina, origin: Shikoku from Central Honshu of Japan, environment: high mountain, plant height: 20 to 40 cm, flowering time: from June to September, flower color: purple, flower size: 5 cm.

[Flower of the Dipsacaceae]
+ Scabiosa japonica is high and flowers at a plateau in autumn.

+Scabiosa japonica var. alpina makes bloom at a high mountain in summer, and the height of the grass is lower than a Scabiosa japonica, and the capitula is bigger than a Scabiosa japonica.

+ Scabiosa atropurpurea is a close species of S. japonica , and a color of a flower is abundant, and center and both neighboring flowers swell.


  • Order
    Dipsacales
  • Family
    Dipsacaceae
  • Genus
    Scabiosa
  • Species
    S. japonica var.alpina
  • Type of flower
    Radial symmetrical flower
  • Array of flower
    Monopetal inflorescence
  • Petal shape
    Head flower
  • Leaf type
    Feather shape
  • Edge of the leaf
  • Life typeMore hardy annual grasses
  • Flower colorsPurple
  • Colors of the leavesGreen
  • Fruit colorGreen
  • Height20.0 ~ 40.0 cm
  • Diameter of flower5.0 ~ 5.0 cm

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