Nartheciaceae FAMILY

Aletris spicata

Edibility

1/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Aletris spicata is a herbaceous perennial plant producing a clump of dense rosettes of leaves 5 - 30cm long from a rhizomatous rootstock. The plant produces a flowering stem 15 - 70cm tall[ 266 Title Flora of China Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. Year 1994 ISBN Description An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a medicine and possibly also a food.

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate; tropical

Native RangeE. Asia - China, Japan, Philippines, ?northern Malaysia.

HabitatHills and low mountains in C. and S. Japan[ 58 Title Flora of Japan. (English translation) Publication Author Ohwi. G. Publisher Smithsonian Institution Year 1965 ISBN - Description The standard work. Brilliant, but not for the casual reader. ]. Forests, thicket margins, scrub, grasslands, streamsides, roadsides; at elevations from 100 - 2,900 metres in China[ 266 Title Flora of China Publication Author Website http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/ Publisher Missouri Botanical Garden Press; St. Louis. Year 1994 ISBN Description An excellent, comprehensive resource in 25 volumes. In addition to the botanical information the flora also gives basic information on habitat and some uses. An on-line version is also available. ].