Koyazasa - Koyazasa

Japanese: コウヤザサ - こうやざさ

A perennial grass of the Poaceae family (illustration). Its Japanese name is Koya-zasa, which probably means the bamboo that grows on Mount Koya in Wakayama Prefecture. This grass is distributed from the Chubu region west of Japan, Shikoku, and Kyushu to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China, and its basic variety, American Koya-zasa, is widely known in the Appalachian Mountains of the United States. It is a thin herb about 60 cm tall that grows in sparse forests and grasslands in mountainous areas, and grows sparsely in clumps. The leaves are attached to the nodes of the stem, are rather small, narrow lanceolate, about 10 cm long and 6 mm wide, and have sparse hairs on the surface of the leaves.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

イネ科の多年草（イラスト）。和名は高野笹で，和歌山県高野山に生える笹の意味であろう。この草は日本の中部地方以西，四国，九州から中国の長江下流地域に分布し，その基本変種アメリカコウヤザサはアメリカ合衆国のアパラチア山脈に広く知られている。山地の疎林内や草地に生える，高さ60cmくらいの細い草本で，まばらに叢生（そうせい）する。葉は茎の節につき，やや小型で幅の狭い披針形で，長さ10cm，幅は6mmくらい，葉の表にまばらに毛がある。

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