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Dicentra peregrina
Komakusa is a small alpine perennial from the poppy family, native to high mountains of Japan, the Kurils, Sakhalin and northeast Siberia, with pink-purple heart-shaped flowers. It grows best in cool conditions with sharp drainage and gritty soil, and is rarely grown outside its native range.
Dicentra peregrina (Japanese: コマクサ, komakusa) is a herbaceous perennial growing from a rhizome, native to mountains in Japan and nearby areas of East Asia.
Komakusa grows in Japan, the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin Island, and northeastern Siberia, including the Kamchatka Peninsula. It favors gravelly soil at high altitudes, 3,350 m (10,990 ft), in alpine tundra.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dicentra peregrina by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
