Can't name the common plants you see? Today we'll help you identify them all
Life is always full of all kinds of flowers and plants. Some plants you see all the time, yet you simply cannot name them. Today, let's get to know them!
1. Sicklepod
Sicklepod, also known as wild senna, flowers and fruits from August to November. Sicklepod is mainly propagated by seed. The seeds of sicklepod are called cassia seeds, and have the effects of clearing the liver and improving eyesight, promoting urination and relieving constipation. The young leaves and tender pods are edible.
2. Mock strawberry
Mock strawberry, also known as snake bubble grass, wild strawberry, ground berry and so on. It flowers from June to August and fruits from August to October. It mostly grows wild on hillsides, grasslands, roadsides, ditch edges or among weeds on field ridges. The whole plant is used medicinally, with effects of clearing heat and detoxifying, promoting blood circulation and dissipating blood stasis, and astringing to stop bleeding; it can also treat venomous snake bites.
3. Silk tree flower
Silk tree leaves open by day and close by night, and people often use the silk tree to represent unwavering love. The tender leaves are edible, the old leaves can be used to wash clothes, and the bark is used medicinally and has an insect-repelling effect. In short, every part of it is a treasure!
4. Hollyhock
If you want to give flowers to your beloved or girlfriend to praise her gentle personality and her qualities as a good wife and loving mother, then you might consider giving red hollyhock, which represents a gentle floral message. The anthocyanins extracted from the flowers can be used as a food colouring. The whole plant is used medicinally, with effects of clearing heat and stopping bleeding, reducing swelling and detoxifying, and treating conditions such as vomiting blood and profuse uterine bleeding.
5. Forsythia
Forsythia, commonly known as a string of gold. Its flowers bloom with a delicate fragrance, and the branches are covered in golden yellow, gorgeous and lovely; it is an excellent early-spring flowering shrub, and the plant can reach 3 m in height. The corolla is yellow, the flowering period is March to April, and the fruiting period is July to September. The fruit can be used medicinally.
6. Chloris
Chloris, isn't it the grass you often used as a broom when playing house as a child? It is really fun grass. It is not foxtail grass, you know; each stem of Chloris has 5-10 spike-like inflorescences, just like a nine-tailed cat demon.
7. Horseweed
You are not unfamiliar with it, you just cannot call it by name. Horseweed is a common weed that looks very much like dandelion, but it is not. It has the effects of clearing heat and draining dampness, and dissipating blood stasis and reducing swelling. It inhibits the growth of nearby plants by secreting allelopathic substances.
8. Black nightshade
This plant called black nightshade is also known as bitter nightshade. It is distributed throughout all regions of our country. The berries and leaves can both be eaten; after the berries turn purple, they can be eaten directly, tasting sweet and sour, but the leaves contain a large amount of alkaloids and must be cooked thoroughly.