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Umbrella Elatostema

Elatostema umbellatum

Umbrella Elatostema
Photo: Mason Brock (Masebrock), Public domain

Elatostema umbellatum is a small perennial in the nettle family, native to shady mountain forests of Japan and Korea. It grows best in cool, moist, deeply shaded conditions with humus-rich soil kept evenly damp.

Family
Urticaceae (Nettle family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Shade, Part shade
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist and never let it dry out completely.
Soil
Humus-rich, moist, well-drained woodland mix
Temperature
10–22 °C; tolerates cold winters and is hardy in temperate climates
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Korea, C. & S. Japan
Climate
temperate

About

Elatostema umbellatum is a species of flowering plant in the nettle family (Urticaceae). It is native to Japan, where it is found from the Kantō region westward. Its natural habitat is in moist, deeply forested places in the mountains.

It is a perennial, growing 20 to 30 cm tall. It has serrated leaves, 3 to 6 cm long, with up to 5 teeth per side. It produces umbels of small flowers from March to May.

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Elatostema umbellatum 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.

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