It grows in the sunny grassy plain and riverbank, in the slope
of a roadside and the mountainous district, the sandy beach of the shore.
Flower bloom about June, and there are white, peach, purple, blue, yellow a lot. There are 5,000 kinds including combinations.
It is seen in Kyushu from Hokkaido, around village of the forest and
the mountains of Yakushima. It is a Japanese inherent kind, but is not
distributed over Ryukyu Islands.
In Japan, it is a representative class of colored leaves with a kind
of the maple genus seen best. It is frequent in a low mountain from level
ground of Honshu to around 1,000m above sea level. In the foreign territory,
it grow wild in Korean Peninsula, China, Taiwan.
It is a tree representing summer from China. It has flowers on the branch from the summer to the autumn. The color of flowers are white, pink, rouge, crimson and violet. The petals are six pieces.
It is distributed over East Asia including the whole land of Japan and
the northeastern part of the United States. There are approximately 180
kinds spiderwort genus in the world, and there are five kinds in Japan.