Ootachitsubo-sumire

Viola kusanoana

  • Ootachitsubo-sumire
  • Ootachitsubo-sumire
  • Flower name
    Ootachitsubo-sumire
  • Scientific name
    Viola kusanoana
  • Alias大立坪菫, Viola kusanoana, Ootachitsubo-sumire
  • Place of originJapan
  • Place of floweringFields and footpaths, Low mountains
  • Flowering seasonMay, June

What is Ootachitsubo-sumire

Ootachitsubo-sumire , scientific name:Viola kusanoana , is native to Japan,and is a hardy perennial of the department Violaceae , of the genus Viola. Early spring, ranging the purple flowers bloom. Leaves are green and the leaves are serrated leaf edge, heart-shaped. Stem leaves from the flowers begin to bloom.
Compared with too (Tachitsubo-sumire , scientific name:Viola grypoceras) and tasked with reddish flowers are more thoroughly, large, the lip has a purple mesh muscle, is characterized by leaves are roundish, white range.

Common name: ootachitsubo-sumire , scientific name:Viola kusanoana, origin: Japan, distribution: Hokkaido-Kyushu, environment: wet grassland, living type: perennial Height: 30-40 cm, leaf shape, heart shape, leaf length: 3-7 cm, flowering period: May-June, pale purple flower color: reddish-purple in lip muscle for the purple, flower length: 2 cm, ranging colors: white, long distance short


  • Order
    Malpighiales
  • Family
    Violaceae
  • Genus
    Viola
  • Species
    V. kusanoana
  • Type of flower
    Left-right symmetrical flower
  • Array of flower
    Monopetal inflorescence
  • Petal shape
    Violet
  • Leaf type
    heart-shaped
  • Edge of the leaf
    Serrated
  • Life typePerennation grass
  • Flower colorsPurple
  • Colors of the leavesGreen
  • Fruit colorGreen
  • Height30.0 ~ 40.0 cm
  • Diameter of flower2.0 ~ 2.0 cm

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