Family | ARISTOLOCHIACEAE |
Genus species | Asarum parviflorum Regel |
Bibliography | Index Seminum (LE, Petropolitanus) 1866: 89 (1867) |
Native Range | Japan (Honshu) |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | thickets and woods |
Description | leaves ovate, acute, long petiolate, flowers minute, shorter than bracts, tube of perianth broadly elipsoid, at apex distinctly tapered, lobes broadly ovate, patent |
Size | 5-10cm |
Color | purple |
Bloom | early spring |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | cold, shady site with a humous, moist soil alpine house, moist, humous soil, shade |
Propagation | seed when ripe or as soon as possible division in early and late summer |
Synonyms | Asarum elegans Duch. Heterotropa parviflora (Regel) Hook.f. |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 38 Eastern Asia (JAP Japan) |