Orchis

Japanese: orchis
Orchis

...A reddish purple terrestrial orchid commonly found in wet flower fields in the alpine to subalpine zones. The name Hakusan comes from Mt. Hakusan in Ishikawa Prefecture. It has a tuberous root with a palmately divided tip. The flower stalk is 10-40 cm tall and bears 3-6 leaves. The leaves are oblanceolate, 7-15 cm long, and the upper leaves are smaller. From June to August, it produces a dozen or so dense reddish purple flowers. Each flower is just over 1 cm in diameter. The sepals open, the lip has dark reddish purple markings, and is three-lobed with a pointed tip. It has a somewhat thick spur of about 15 mm. It grows in the alpine zone north of central Honshu, in eastern and northern Hokkaido, in flat marshes and grasslands, and is distributed on the Pacific coast from Alaska to Japan, and in East Asia from Alaska to the Sea of ​​Japan coast of Korea. ...

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Japanese:

…高山帯から亜高山帯の湿性のお花畑に多くみられる紅紫色の地生ラン。ハクサンの名は石川県白山にちなむ。先端が掌状に分裂した塊根がある。花茎は高さ10~40cmで,葉を3~6枚つける。葉は倒披針形で長さ7~15cm,上部の葉は小さくなる。6~8月,紅紫色の花を密に十数花つける。花は径1cm強。萼片は開出し,唇弁は暗紅紫色の斑紋があり,3裂して先端はとがる。約15mmのやや太い距がある。本州中部以北の高山帯,北海道の道東や道北では平地の湿原や草原に生育し,さらにアラスカから日本までの太平洋側,アラスカから朝鮮の日本海側までの東アジアに分布する。…

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