Umbelled rockjasmine is a tiny Asian wildflower that holds clusters of white, yellow-eyed flowers on thread-thin stalks above a flat of round leaves. It grows wild across much of South and East Asia but not in the United States.
Appearance
- Growth form
- A small annual or biennial, usually 2–8 in (5–20 cm) tall and softly hairy all over.
- Leaves
- Long-stalked, nearly round leaves with small teeth form a flat rosette at the base.
- Flowers
- Several slender stalks rise from the rosette, each topped by an umbrella-like cluster of 3–9 white flowers only about 0.2 in (4–5 mm) across, with a yellowish center.
- Fruit
- A nearly round seed capsule, about 1/8 in (3.5 mm) across, holds a dozen or more tiny seeds.
Where it lives
- Typical habitats
- sunny grassy slopes
- field edges
- dry grasslands
- Range
- Native from northern Pakistan and the Himalayas across China to the Russian Far East, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, and New Guinea. Not native to North America.
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