Tateyamakinbai (Tateyama Golden Plum) - Tateyamakinbai (English name) Sibbaldia procumbens L.

Japanese: タテヤマキンバイ(立山金梅) - タテヤマキンバイ（英語表記）Sibbaldia procumbens L.

An alpine plant of the rose family with yellow flowers, first discovered in Japan on Mt. Tateyama (illustration). Found on sunny gravel ground in the alpine zone, it grows 5-10cm tall, with creeping, woody stems. The leaves are trifoliate and compound, with long stalks. The leaflets are wedge-shaped and have 3-5 sawtooth tips. In summer, a flower stalk emerges from the tip of the stem, with a corymb-like inflorescence and very small flowers. There are five yellow petals, the sepals being slightly longer. There are five stamens and 5-20 pistils. The fruit is acaryophyte. It is rarely found in the high mountains of the Chubu region of Honshu and Hokkaido, and is widely distributed in the cold zones and high mountains of the Northern Hemisphere, from Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands through Siberia to Europe, and from Alaska to Greenland, and is considered a relic of the Ice Age.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

日本では立山で初めて発見された，黄色の花をもつバラ科の高山植物（イラスト）。高山帯の日向の砂礫（されき）地に見られ，草丈5～10cm，茎は地をはい，木質化する。葉は3出複葉で，長い柄がある。小葉はくさび形をなし，先端は3～5個の鋸歯がある。夏に，茎の先端部分より花茎を出し，花序は散房状で，花は非常に小さい。花弁は5枚，黄色で萼片の方が少し長い。おしべ5本，めしべ5～20本。果実は瘦果（そうか）。本州中部地方と北海道の高山にまれに産し，サハリン，千島からシベリアをへてヨーロッパに，またアラスカからグリーンランドまでと広く北半球の寒帯および高山に分布し，氷河時代の残存植物とみなされている。

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