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The "Ko-karamatsu" (Thalictrum minus var. stipellatum) belongs to Ranunculaceae (the Buttercup family). It is a perennial herb that is found in Japan-from Hokkaido to central and northern Honshu and Shikoku-as well as in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, the Xinjiang Uyghur Region in China, and from West Asia to Europe. This herb grows from the subalpine zone to the alpine zone and can reach a height of 30-100 cm. The leaves are triternate to tetraternate compound. The pale yellowish white flowers bloom sparsely on the panicles from July to August. It is a type of "Aki-karamatsu" (Thalictrum minus var. hypoleucum), but it is characterized by a long peduncle of 1 to 5 cm. Another name is "Oo-karamatsu", which has the opposite meaning. It is called "長梗亞歐唐松草" (chang geng ya ou tang song cao) in Chinese.
In Korean, it's called "kin-kkok-ji-jom-ggwong-eui-da-ri" (긴꼭지좀꿩의다리). This is a compound word consisting of "long stem" (kin-kkok-ji: 긴꼭지) + "small" (jom: 좀) + "Karamatsu-so" (ggwong-eui-da-ri: 꿩의다리). "ggwong-eui-da-ri" means "pheasant's leg", and it was given this name because the slender, elongated stems resemble a pheasant's legs.
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