ペウケダヌム・ウェネトゥム [Index] [Back] ヨーロッパの東ピレネー山脈、南アルプス、アペニン山脈に分布しています。標高１５００メートルまでの草地や岩礫地に生え、高さは５０〜１００センチになります。茎はよく分枝して、紫色を帯び無毛です。葉は２〜４出羽状複葉で、小葉はふつう羽状に分裂しています。上部の葉はより小さく、広い鞘葉がつきます。７月から８月ごろ、茎頂や枝先の複散形花序に小さな白色の花を咲かせます。苞葉は狭い披針形です。  セリ科カワラボウフウ属の多年草で、学名は Peucedanum venetum。英名は Southern masterwort。  The Southern masterwort (Peucedanum venetum) belongs to Apiaceae (the Carrot family). It is a perennial herb that is found in the Eastern Pyrenees, Southern Alps, and Apennines of Europe. It grows in meadows and rocky gravels up to 1500 m above sea level, and is 50-100 cm tall. The stems are well branched, purplish and hairless. The leaves are two- to four-pinnately compound, and the leaflets are usually pinnately divided. The upper leaves are smaller and have broad sheathing stalks. Small white flowers are produced in compound umbels at the top of stems and branch tips from July to August. The bract leaves are narrowly lanceolate.  スイス・ベルン州グリンデルワルトにて、2008年06月15日撮影。(photo by Jon Suehiro)  Shu Suehiro shu@botanic.jp