Red flower - Red flower (English name) Epilobium pyrricholophum

Japanese: アカバナ(赤花) - アカバナ(英語表記)Epilobium pyrricholophum
Red flower - Red flower (English name) Epilobium pyrricholophum
A perennial plant of the Onagraceae family that grows in wet and marshy areas in the mountains and fields throughout Japan. Stems 30-60 cm tall grow upright from horizontal underground stems. The stems are branched and have fine hairs. The leaves are opposite, ovate-oblong, and serrated on the edges. In summer, it produces pale red-purple flowers with four petals. The flowers have no stalk, but the lower ovary is elongated and looks like a stalk. The same genus, Eupatorium angustifolium, grows to a height of 80-150 cm and has alternate leaves. It produces racemes at the top of the stem, with many beautiful red-purple flowers. It can form large colonies after forest fires. There are many other species in the same genus, such as Eupatorium nigra, Eupatorium nigra, and Eupatorium nigra.

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Japanese:
アカバナ科の多年草で,各地の山野の水湿地に生える。横に走る地下茎から高さ 30~60cmの茎が直立する。茎は分枝し細かい毛をもつ。葉は対生し,卵状長楕円形,縁に鋸歯がある。夏に,淡紅紫色4弁の花を開く。花に柄はないが,下位の子房が細長いので柄のようにみえる。同属のヤナギランは高さ 80~150cmになり,葉は互生する。茎の頂部に総状花序をつけ,多数の紅紫色の花が美しく開く。山火事のあとなどに大きな群落をつくることがある。このほか同属のものとして,イワアカバナ,ミヤマアカバナ,オオアカバナなど多くの種がある。

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