Summer solstice is a perennial herbaceous flower, generally flowering in spring, medicinal, easy to grow summer solstice, and does not require very professional farming knowledge, please refer to this page for knowledge about the cultivation method of the summer solstice.
Introduction
Summer solstice is a small motherwort, scientific name: Lagopsis supina, can be used as a drug material, some places in Yunnan use whole grass medicine, according to Yungong with motherwort.
The summer solstice is a perennial herb of the Labiatae and the summer solstice and is 15-35 cm high. Stems erect, square-column, branched, subglabrous. The summer solstice grass is sunny and humid, and the land requirements are not strict, but the loam cultivation with better water retention capacity is better.
The summer solstice is opposite to the grass; it has long stalks, fine hairs; palmately 3-parted, both sides densely pubescent. Flowering in spring and summer, flower has 6-10 flowers, sessile or short stalk, axillary; bracts and tube are as long as bristles, hairy, finely hairy; calyx bell-shaped, outer quilt with fine hair, short throat Hair, with 5 veins and 5 teeth, with a spike at the end of the tooth. The upper lip has 3 teeth longer than the lower lip. The corolla is white, bell-shaped, with pubescent hair on the outside. The inner cap has no hair ring and the upper lip is longer than the lower lip. , erect, oblong, puberulent, puberulent, puberulent, pubescent, pubescent, pubescent.
Nutlets brown, oblong-shaped triangular. It can be used as a flower bed trim material and flower border. Whole herbs are used as medicine to nourish and regulate menstruation.
Morphological characteristics of summer solstice
Summer solstice is a perennial herb that scatters on the ground or rises with a conical main root. Stems 15-35 cm tall, 4-angled, with grooves, purplish red, densely puberulent, often branched at base. Leaves contoured to be round, 1.5-2 cm long, apex rounded, base update, 3-parted, lobate lanceolate or oblong. sometimes ovate, 3-lobed or lobed, lobate No teeth or sparse scallops, usually the base winter leaves are much wider, the leaves are green on both sides, sparsely puberulent on the upper side, the lower part of the veins are villous, the rest are glandular, the edges are ciliated, palmate, 3-5 out; petiole long, basal leaves 2-3 cm long, upper leaves shorter, usually about 1 cm, flat, slightly grooved.
The umbel is sparsely flowered, with a diameter of about 1 cm. It is denser in the upper part of the branch and looser in the lower part. The small piece is about 4 mm long, slightly shorter than the tube, curved, thorny, densely puberulent. Corolla white, thin pink, slightly protruding from the tube, ca. 7 mm, puberulent puberulent, puberulent puberulent, pubescent at base of filament; crown ca. 5 mm, ca. ca. 1.5 mm; crown bismuth, upper lip straight, longer than lower lip, oblong, entire, lower lip obliquely, 3 lobed, middle lobes oblate, 2-sided lobes elliptic. Stamens 4, inserted in the middle of the crown, slightly absent, posteriorly shorter; anthers ovoid, 2-locule. Style apex 2 lobed. The plate is flat.
The summer solstice flowering period is from March to April, and the fruiting period is from May to June. Nutlets long ovate, ca. 1.5 mm long, brown, squama.
Ecological habits of summer solstice
Prunella enjoys a warm and humid environment, likes light, can withstand cold, and has strong adaptability. However, it is better to have sunny, loose land requirements and well-drained sandy loam. Extremely strong, self-propagating, and resistant to thinness.
Prunella is born on the roadside and on the ground. In the northwest and southwestern provinces, the altitude can be as high as 2,600 meters. Born at the edge of the road at 1,400-2,700 m above sea level, on the roadside, in front of the house or in the shrub, it is a common weed. It can also be planted on dry slopes, foothills, forestside grasslands, roadsides, and fields, but it is not suitable for cultivation.
