Backache opened, which is popularly known as sleep-grass - perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Pulsatilla of the buttercup family.In late April or early May, just after the snow cover, you can see the fabulously beautiful plant-primrose.White, yellow, brown, red and purple petals of delicate flowers backache announce the onset of spring.
External appeal
plants whose flowers are six-pointed petals purple or lilac color - a chamber open.Its root system is vertical,-headed.In the lower part of the stem formed basal, pinnatisect leaves and thin and long stem leaves simple fuse bases.And those and others are covered with light guns.Each individual plant on top of the stem is formed by a single large flower, shaped like a bell erect or dropped.
Description
Interesting features have wild herbs - the chamber open.Description of species shows that under favorable conditions it grows in height and 25 centimeters every year to grow by a strong dark-brown roots.Root leaves on long stalks grow after flowering and in autumn die.Erect stem covered with soft and fluffy hairs.
Flowers sleep-grass have numerous yellow stamens and pistils with long fluffy columns up to 5 centimeters in length.Outside petals are densely covered with down.Dissolve the delicate head or before the leaves, or simultaneously with them.Flowering plant spring in April and May to form late in the season and heavily pubescent oblong fruits that give the appearance of a special decorative effect.
Distribution lumbago
Backache open - sleep-grass - prefers sod-podzolic soils characteristic of sparse pine and mixed pine and birch and pine-oak forests.The flowers grow on the slopes and in the thickets of berry bushes, on mosses and grass litter.Glade lumbago can be found in meadows and steppes of the European part of Russia, Siberia and the Far East.In addition, the natural habitat of this species is in Europe, Asia, North America.
Types lumbago
genus contains about 40 different species growing in cold, temperate, subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere.The majority (26 species Backache) observed in the territory of the former Soviet Union, including cross disclosed that grows in Central and Western Europe, in the European part of Russia, in the south of Western Siberia.
bright pine forests and at the edges there backache Turchaninova, spring, meadow.On the vast high plateau of Crimean mountains and tops, as well as in rock crevices mountain ranges of Central Europe, you can find the form of a Crimean.Most sleep-grass species included in the Red Book of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Estonia.These include the cross disclosed.Red Book prohibits the destruction of populations of rare plants that are threatened with extinction.
Known kinds of lumbago: Alpine, Ayan, spring, mountain, yellowing, golden, bell-shaped, Crimea, meadow, common and many others.Primary colors: white, yellow, red, blue-purple, lilac.
favorable natural conditions for lumbago disclosed
Backache uncovered, photos of which is presented below, has quite a wide range of distribution.Spring plant is equally well feels like in a moderately humid climate, and in the more arid areas.Delicate purple flowers grow not only on rich soils, but can also be satisfied with the poor, de-moisturized.Particularly sensitive to the light conditions and especially in need of sunlight in the spring, during flowering.
Botanical description of the sleep-grass
open Backache or sleep grass reaches a height of 7-15 to 40-50 centimeters, depending on the environmental conditions.Like other species, the stems are hairy coat.Pubescent leaves are long, palmate-lobed, are released only after flowering.Prior to that, a large blue-purple flower diameter up to 8 cm above the grass stands on erect stems.
Backache open forms low, well-developed bushes, which can be dismissed at the same time up to 50 six-petalled flowers.Flowering time is in April-May and lasts for 20-25 days.Propagated herb seeds in most cases, although there have been cases of vegetative propagation.A characteristic feature is early flowering and early death of the generative parts, but the leaves continue to vegetate through the autumn, before the onset of winter cold.
high seed germination is maintained for two years, and then a few fades.Cotyledons lengthened sleep-grass, rich dark green color in small, partially fused petioles.Persist until late autumn.As the first plants appear first lower three-lobed leaves with prominent veining, which are slightly covered with long whitish hairs.Upper leaves appear later, forming the outlet, and abundantly hairy, whereby the open cross - sleep-grass - seem fluffy.It is interesting that in the winter the plants are left with green leaves, but all life processes are slowed down.
Backache Disclosure: medicinal properties
First of all, let's say that it is a poisonous herb, but her whole green aerial part is used for the preparation of medicines for various purposes.The value of plants is that it is even pressed contains a large number of resins, tannins and saponins.Freshly cut grass is rich in sleep-Plus alkaloids - anemonin and ranunkulinom.
use of traditional medicine
Due to its unique composition quite widely used in folk medicine has received cross uncovered, or a dream grass.The Red Book, where it was recorded not long ago, limiting its collection.Basically herb used as a sedative and soporific.But this is not the only direction.Also, sleep-grass has a powerful antibacterial, antifungal and expectorant effects.
This kind of lumbago has antipyretic and diuretic effect.The recipes of traditional medicine herbs are used to warm patients with limb joints of brewed green.Backache Turchaninova growing in the Trans-Baikal region, as well as white-naped, which can be found in the Maritime Territory and the Amur region, are used to treat pustular infections as a painkiller, and divert funds to recuperate at exhaustion.
Backache disclosed suitable for rubbing the pressed juice of green inflamed rheumatic joints.Still fresh juice cures glaucoma.Another type - cross drooping, growing on the east of the country - has found its application in Chinese medicine.Broth mature rhizomes are used as a hemostatic and astringent.
Of course, before you use the miraculous properties of the chamber, it is necessary to get professional medical advice.There are some contraindications associated with the fact that the plant is poisonous.In particular, the presence of diseases such as gastritis or other gastrointestinal diseases, nephritis.Drug collection is carried out during the flowering period of the sleep-grass, which lasts from April to May.
Since all kinds of lumbago have incredibly attractive appearance, they naturally look at the group of landscape plantings and lawns will be great decoration, alpine gardens and parks.And for those who want to dig for your garden, and a rare copy of the forbidden wild flower cross disclosed, will be useful information that adults can not tolerate transplanting backache.
