Cardamine leucantha




Family Brassicaceae
Scientific name Cardamine leucantha (Tausch) O. E. Schulz
Synonyms Cardamine cathayensis Migo; Cardamine dasyloba (Turczaninow) Miquel; Cardamine leucantha var. crenata D. C. Zhang; Cardamine macrophylla Willdenow var. parviflora Trautvetter; Dentaria dasyloba Turczaninow; Dentaria leucantha Tausch; Dentaria macrophylla (Willdenow) Bunge ex Maximowicz var. dasyloba (Turczaninow) Makino
Common name (Japanese common name) kon-ron sou (コンロンソウ, 崑崙草 [meaning: Kon-ron weed (Kon-ron = an utopian mountain name in China)])
(English common name) none
Distribution (Japan) Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu
(Other nations) Russia, Korea, China, Mongolia
Habitat Mountane streamside
Chromosomal number 2n=16
Description Plants electing 30-50cm tall. Leaves leaflets 3-6cm long. Flowers white 4 petals each 7-10mm long, flowering in April to May. Perennial plants.
Reference Cardamine leucantha (Tausch) O. E. Schulz
Cardamine leucantha O.E. Schulz



April 2007
at Tsukuba Botanical Garden
May 2009
at mountane streamside
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at mountane streamside



May 2009
at mountane streamside



May 2009
at mountane streamside
May 2009
at mountane streamside
May 2009
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May 2009
at mountane streamside