Euphrasia iinumae (Euphrasia iinumae)

Japanese: コゴメグサ(小米草) - コゴメグサ（英語表記）Euphrasia iinumae

An annual plant of the Scrophulariaceae family. It grows in mountain grasslands in central Honshu. The stems are thin, about 20 cm tall, and branch out. The leaves grow opposite each other, but alternate at the top of the branches. They have no stalks and are oval with a long diameter of about 1 cm and sharp sawtooth. In summer, they produce small white lip-shaped flowers in the leaf axils. Many plants in this genus grow in places where other plants cannot easily invade, such as alpine zones, limestone areas, and serpentine areas, and there are many closely related species such as E. matsumurae , E. insignis , and E. yabeana .

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Japanese:

ゴマノハグサ科の一年草。本州中部の山中の草地に生じる。茎は細く高さ 20cmぐらいで，枝分れする。葉は対生するが枝の上部では互生し，柄はなく長径 1cmほどの卵形で鋸歯は鋭い。夏に，葉腋に小さな白色の唇形花をつける。この属の植物は高山帯や石灰岩地帯，蛇紋岩地帯など他の植物の侵入しがたいところに生じるものが多く，コバノコゴメグサ E. matsumurae，ミヤマコゴメグサ E. insignis，ヒナコゴメグサ E. yabeanaなど近縁種が多数ある。

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