Whale grass - Whale grass

Japanese: クジラグサ - くじらぐさ
Whale grass - Whale grass

A biennial herb of the Brassicaceae family (APG classification: Brassicaceae). It has white soft hairs all over, a branched stem, and grows to a height of 30-70 cm. The leaves are stalkless, narrowly ovate, bipinnately lobed, and oblanceolate. Small flowers bloom in May and June with yellow, narrow, spoon-shaped petals. The siliques are narrowly linear. It is rarely seen in central Honshu, and is distributed in temperate Europe and Asia. It is said that the name comes from the likening of the finely lobed leaves to whale baleen.

[Junko Kobayashi November 13, 2020]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

アブラナ科(APG分類:アブラナ科)の一、二年草。全体に白い軟毛があり茎は分枝し、高さ30~70センチメートル。葉は柄がなく、狭卵形、2回羽状に全裂し、裂片は倒披針(とうひしん)形。5~6月、小さな花を開き、花弁は黄色で狭い匙(さじ)形。長角果は狭線形。本州中部にまれにみられ、ヨーロッパ、アジアの温帯に分布する。名は、細く切れ込んだ葉をクジラのひげに例えたものといわれる。

[小林純子 2020年11月13日]

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