Leontopodium japonicum

Leontopodium japonicum

  • Leontopodium japonicum
  • Leontopodium japonicum
  • Leontopodium japonicum
  • Leontopodium japonicum
  • Flower name
    Leontopodium japonicum
  • Scientific name
    Leontopodium japonicum
  • Alias薄雪草, Leontopodium japonicum, Usuyukisou
  • Place of originJapan and China.
  • Place of floweringLow mountains, Sub-alpine, Hokkaido
  • Flowering seasonJune, July, August

What is Leontopodium japonicum

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Leontopodium japonicum or Usuyukisou (scientific name: Leontopodium japonicum) is a hardy perennial in the family Asteraceae native to Japan and China. It is native to the low-mountain to subalpine zone in Hokkaido and Kyushu. It produces rosette leaves and upright flower stalks from the rhizome. What look like white flowers are bracts. The Japanese name was given to it because of the dense white hairs on the whole grass, which resemble light snow. The white hairs of L. japonicum is thinner than Edelweiss (scientific name:Leontopodium nivale). The head flower is only a yellow cylindrical flower, which is bisexual in the center and surrounded by female flowers. The surrounding female flowers fructify.

Common Name: Leontopodium japonicum, Scientific Name: Leontopodium japonicum, Country of origin: Japan and China, Distribution: low mountains to subalpine in Hokkaido, living Type: Cold-resistant perennial, Height: 15-30 cm, Inflorescence: alternate, Leaf shape: capitate, Leaf margin: full margin, bisexual flowers (in the central head), female flowers (around the head), Inflorescence: scattered inflorescence, Corolla: head flower, corolla: yellow, diameter of the head flower: 0.5 cm, Number of leaves: 10-20, Flowering time: mid-June to mid-August, Flower color (actually bracteal color): white.


  • Order
    Asterales
  • Family
    Asteraceae
  • Genus
    Leontopodium
  • Species
    L. japonicum
  • Type of flower
    Radial symmetrical flower
  • Array of flower
    Scattered inflorescence/ umbrella shape
  • Petal shape
    Head flower
  • Leaf type
    lanceolate
  • Edge of the leaf
    Entire
  • Life typehardy perennial grass
  • Flower colors
  • Colors of the leavesGreen
  • Fruit colorGreen
  • Height15.0 ~ 30.0 cm
  • Diameter of flower0.5 ~ 0.5 cm

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