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Dicentra pergrina(family: Papaveraceae)

Japanese name: Komakusa

This plant is alpine plant, which grows only at gravel of high mountain in Japan. They call this flower as a Queen of Japanese Alpine Flower.Japanese name Koma-kusa(horse-grass) comes from that shape of this flower looks like face of horse.

My observation records:

29/July/'99 Mt. Norikura Japanese Alps blooming at gravel
30/July/'95 Mt. Sirane Gunma-pref blooming(see second photo)