Dog's Whiskers - Dog's Whiskers

Japanese: イヌノハナヒゲ - いぬのはなひげ

A slender perennial plant of the Cyperaceae family that grows around wet grasslands and ponds (illustration). Its thin stems and leaves grow densely to form a clump. The leaves are linear and about 2 mm wide. The stems grow to a height of about 70 cm, and from July to October they produce thin panicles at the top, with brown spikelets scattered about. The fruits are 1.7 mm long and elliptical, with a beak-shaped style base at the top and six bristles at the base. The bristles grow in a way that resembles the growth of a dog's moustache, so they are called "dog's moustache." They are found west of Aichi Prefecture in Honshu, through Shikoku, Kyushu, and the Ryukyu Islands, and in southern China, Southeast Asia, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

湿った草原や池沼のまわりに生える，カヤツリグサ科の細長い多年草（イラスト）。細い茎と葉が密生して株となる。葉は幅2mmくらいの線形。茎は高さ70cmほどになり，7～10月ころ上の方に細い円錐花序を出し，茶色の小穂をまばらにつける。果実は長さ1.7mmの楕円形で，頂にくちばし状の花柱基があり，基部に6本の剛毛があるが，この剛毛の生え方が犬の鼻ひげの生え方に似ているから，〈犬の鼻鬚〉と呼ばれる。本州の愛知県以西，四国，九州，琉球諸島を経て，中国南部，東南アジア，インドネシア，スリランカに分布する。

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