Eranthis pinnatifida

Location: Aqua
Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Medical Plant Garden
Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Medical Plant Garden
Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Medical Plant Garden

Flower name
Eranthis pinnatifida
Scientific name
Eranthis pinnatifida
Alias節分草
Place of originJapan
Place of floweringGarden
Flowering seasonFebruary, March
Language of flowersSmile

What is Eranthis pinnatifida

Birth flowers for Feb 3

💧February 3rd's birth flower is Eranthis pinnatifida
～The Droplet of the Eranthis pinnatifida～
Aqua (drop's thought, illustration, English-Chinese translation), Edited by Mizuho @Kagiken

セツブンソウ
Eranthis pinnatifida, illustration：Aqua
Note: The Japanese text in the illustration is the snowdrop water droplet poem written below. Aqua is a water spirit.

💧The Dewdrop Poem of the Snowdrop Flower

Beneath the snow
You waited for spring
That quiet resolve
Unravels my heart

🌿From the Dewdrop's Perspective
The snowdrop flower
Peeks out softly from beneath the snow around Setsubun,
A small, delicate white flower.

Its form is like
a “tiny messenger announcing winter's end,”
and Shizuku was drawn to its quiet courage.
This is a poem where Aqua gently accompanies the “quiet strength” held by this small flower.

Eranthis pinnatifida

Eranthis pinnatifida or Setsubun-so (scientific name: Eranthis pinnatifida) is native to Japan, and is a cold-resistant perennial plant (bulb plant) of the family Ranunculaceae. It grows naturally on the slope of the deciduous forest in the limestone zone.
Japanese name 'Setsubun-so' comes from the flowering in the lunar calendar of the lunar calendar. In the early spring, they draw out the flower stalk from the center of the total bract leaves located at the tip of the upright stem and attach a white five-flowered flower. This is actually petals, not calyx. The actual flowers are in the center of the white calyx, but the petals have degenerated, and the tip is a yellow honey gland with two branches. Inside the petals is surrounded by a stamen with a blue-purple anther. A pink stamper protruding in the center of the flower. There is poison in whole grass.
"Eranthis" in the genus name is Latin, "er (spring) + anthos (flower)", meaning "spring flower". "Species pinnat" pinnatifida "means" of feather splitting ", it comes from total leafy leaves.
There is also a yellow flower blooming 'Eranthis hyemalis'.

Common name: Eranthis pinnatifida or Setsubun-so,
Scientific name: Eranthis pinnatifida,
Synonym: Shibateranthis pinnatifida,
Place of origin: Japan,
Life type: Cold-resistant perennial plant,
plant height : 5 to 10 cm,
flowering period: February to March, flower color (actually, calyx): white, flower diameter: 2 to 3 cm.