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Swertia japonica
East Asian Swertia (senburi) is a biennial wildflower of Japan, Korea and China, grown for its intensely bitter medicinal herb. It flowers in its second year, and it is grown mainly in Japan for medicine.
Swertia japonica, also known as senburi (センブリ), is a biennial plant species in the family Gentianaceae. It is one of the most widely-used medicinal herbs in Japan.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Swertia japonica 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.
