Iwagikyo - Iwagikyo

Japanese: イワギキョウ - いわぎきょう
Iwagikyo - Iwagikyo

A perennial plant of the Campanulaceae family (APG classification: Campanulaceae). The basal leaves are obovate-lanceolate with sharp sawtooth and a winged stalk at the base. The flower stalk is 5-12 cm tall and has several small, alternate, obovate, stalkless leaves. In August, a single bright purple flower opens sideways at the end of the flower stalk. The corolla is broad-bell-shaped with five lobes and no hairs. The calyx is coarsely hairy and has five lobes, the lobes are linear with a few sawtooths and open out. The fruit is a capsule that opens upwards. It grows in rock crevices and gravel areas in the alpine zone of Honshu from the Chubu region northwards and Hokkaido, and is distributed in the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin, Aleutian Islands, Kamchatka, and Alaska. The name comes from the fact that it grows on rocky areas and its flowers resemble bellflowers. The closely related Chishima bellflower has hairs on the inside of the corolla and low, wavy sawtooth leaves. Its distribution area is also almost the same.

[Hideo Takahashi October 20, 2021]

[Reference item] | Chishima gyokuro
Rock lily
The basal leaves are obovate-lanceolate with sharp sawtooth. In August, the bright purple flowers bloom sideways at the end of the flower stalk. ©Shogakukan ">

Rock lily


Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

キキョウ科(APG分類:キキョウ科)の多年草。根出葉は倒卵状披針(ひしん)形で、とがった鋸歯(きょし)があり、基部は翼のある柄となる。花茎は高さ5~12センチメートル、倒披針形の柄のない小さな葉を数枚互生する。8月、花茎の先に鮮やかな紫色の花を1個横向きに開く。花冠は広鐘形で5裂し、毛はない。萼(がく)は粗毛があって5裂し、裂片は線形で少数の鋸歯があり開出する。果実は蒴果(さくか)で上を向いて裂開する。本州の中部地方以北、北海道の高山帯の岩隙(がんげき)や礫地(れきち)に生え、千島、樺太(からふと)(サハリン)、アリューシャン、カムチャツカ、アラスカに分布する。名は、岩場に生え、花がキキョウに似るのでいう。よく似たチシマギキョウは花冠の内面に毛があり、葉に波状の低い鋸歯がある。分布域もほぼ同じである。

[高橋秀男 2021年10月20日]

[参照項目] | チシマギキョウ
イワギキョウ
根出葉は倒卵状披針形で、とがった鋸歯がある。8月、花茎の先に鮮やかな紫色の花を横向きに開く©Shogakukan">

イワギキョウ


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