Soft Windflower🌸

A perennial in the buttercup family, distributed across Japan, Korea, China, Sakhalin, and the Kurils. A representative spring ephemeral, forming carpets of white flowers in mountain forests. Named 'ni-rin-sō' ('two-flowered plant') because each stalk typically bears two flowers (sometimes 1–3). The young leaves are eaten as wild vegetables but are extremely similar to the deadly poisonous Japanese monkshood (yama-torikabuto); fatal misidentifications occur every year.

Identification Points

• ✓Usually two white flowers per stalk (the '5 petals' are actually sepals)
• ✓Carpets spring forest floors
• ✓Deeply 3-lobed leaves, further dissected

Morphological TraitsAI-estimated, needs verification

Phylogenetic Positionキンポウゲ科 →