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Epilobium angustifolium(family: Onagraceae)

Japanese name: Yanagi-ran/English name: Fire weed

This plant grows at sunny field of mountainside from Central Japan to Hokkaido.Japanese name Yanagi-run(Willow-orchid) is from that leaf looks like the leaf of willow-tree, and its flower looks like orchid. Sometimes this plant grows in big group(colony).

My observation records:

29/July/'99 Norikura-Highland Nagano-pref blooming
01/Aug/'98 Lake-Mashu Hokkaido blooming
12/July/'98 Nigorigo-spa Gifu-pref blooming in colony