Spring seven herbs
Haruno nanakusa
- Flower nameSpring seven herbs
- Scientific nameHaruno nanakusa
- Alias春の七草, Spring seven herbs
- Place of originJapan
- Place of floweringRice paddies
- Flowering seasonJuly, August
- Language of flowersInnocence
What is Spring seven herbs
Spring seven herbs , Haruno Nanakusa refers to the seven kinds of flowers representing spring.
Gnaphalium affine (Gogyo or Hahakogusa),
Japanese radish (Suzushiro or Daikon),
Turnip (Kabu, Suzuna or turnip),
Japanese parsley(Seri),
Stellaria media (Hakobe) ,
Capsella bursa-pastoris (Nazuna),
Tabirako (Tabirako, or old hotokenoza.
Every January 7, we wish to have a disease-free healthy one year for us Japanese people to eat "seven gruel's porridge of spring" combined with these seven grasses with white rice.
Category name: Plantae angiosperm eudicots

































