They're Ajuga and there are several types of Ajuga, including Ajuga reptans or bugleweed, which is native to Europe, and Ajuga decumbens, which is native to Japan. Ajuga are so hardy that you can see both in many places even on sidewalks in Central Tokyo. These two are clearly different, however. European Ajuga are much taller than Japanese ones and that's why Japanese Ajuga are used as a groundcover while European ones are not (or cannot). The flowers resemble each other very much though.
Ajuga decumbens has various names in Japanese, such as "Lid of cauldron of hell" by comparing the plant, which covers the ground, to the lid of the cauldron of hell or "(Plant) keeping doctors away" because of its pain relief effects.
Both are tiny and beautiful and always make me smile with a funny shape, which looks like to me a person floating with open arms!
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アジュガです。いろいろ種類があり、セイヨウキランソウ(西洋金瘡小草)は名前の通り欧州原産でとっても丈夫。上に上に伸びます。一方、日本原産のキランソウ(金瘡小草)は地べたを這うように繁殖します。でも、西洋キランソウもキランソウも花はそっくりで形がとてもユニーク。私には手を広げて浮かんでいる人に見えます。
キランソウは別名「ジゴクノカマノフタ(地獄の釜の蓋)」。葉が地面に張り付くように広がる様子を地獄の釜の蓋(ふた)に見立てたとのこと。また、薬草としての効能から「イシャゴロシ(医者殺し)」とも呼ばれています。
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