Viola rossii		Japanese Name : Akebobo Sumire	Japanese
	Viola rossii f. atro-purpurea	Viola rossii f. lactiflora

Yamanashi / April 26th, 2003
Gunma / May 2nd, 1999	Gunma / May 2nd, 1999
	Few kind of 'wild violet'; blooms on a bright hill here. A large-patterned flower is the greatest feature at a glance. The flower color, too, is different from the general violet, being fair.
Kamiminochi District, Nagano / May 3rd, 1999
Gunma / May 2nd, 1999	Tokyo / April 15th, 2001

Stalk Form	This has no leaves on the stems that bear flowers. And this species has leaves and flowers on separate stalks.
Habitat	In the bottom of the woods, they are many on the slope where the fallen leaf piled up (As the photograph).
Distribution	It is distributed over the inland area from the Hokkaido southern part to Kyushu central part. Comparatively, it is little in the western Japan.
Characteristic of a flower	The large wheel of the soft image flower which is pink roughly in the circularity of the whole flower is characteristic.
Characteristic of a leaf	In the pointed heart form of the end, it spreads out roughly barely after the flower. There is a minute hair.
Scientific Name	Viola rossii 　Hemsley ex Forbes et Hemsley 　Akebobo violet Viola rossii f. atro-purpurea 　(Nakai) F. Maekawa 　Kurobana Akebobo violet Viola rossii f. lactiflora 　(Nakai) Hiyama ex F. Maekawa 　Shirobana Akebobo violet
Chromosomes Number	2n=24
Others	Viola vaginata grows in with the side of Japan Sea, Viola rossii grows in with the inland area, Viola bisseti grows in with Pacific Ocean side.

The thick stem stretches from among of the withered leaf and has the large flower of the sinking pink. Viola vaginata has the characteristic of the common leaf. The leafstalk, too, is thick long but because it stands up diagonally, the vertically stretching flower is conspicuous one-sidedly to the florescence. The spread of the leaf isn't enough in the condition that the flower was blooming fully and is as balled like the packing paper which wraps up a bouquet.

It is distributed mainly in 'Saitama' from violet major power 'Nagano', 'Gunma'. In 'Gunma', for the first time, when finding, being very glad, it admired with which has the violet of such a large image. The image is quite different from Viola bissetii in Mt. Takao. Regrettably, the color was different from the flower to have been seeing 'Gunma' and 'Nagano' with the illustrated guide.

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