It's a little old. It's blooming.
Annual or biennial herbs, 30 ~ 40 cm high, slender straight roots, white, straight down, branched and erect stems. Rooted leaves are clustered, pinnately parted, sparsely entire, and the upper lobes are triangular; Cauline leaves are oblong or linear-lanceolate, the top is nearly linear, the base is ear-shaped, the edge is notched or serrated, or nearly entire, there are single or branched villi on both sides of the leaves, and long white eyelashes are sparsely distributed on the edge. There are many flowers, and axillary racemes are generated at the top; Calyx 4 pieces, green, spreading, ovoid, base section, with white edge; Petals obovate, clawed, 4 pieces, white, cross-shaped, about 2.5 mm in diameter; Stamens 6, 4 strong, with green glands at the base; Pistil 1, ovary triangular-ovate, style extremely short. Short pods are inverted triangle, hairless, flat, slightly concave at the top, 6 ~ 8 mm long and 5 ~ 6 mm wide, with residual styles. The seeds are about 20 ~ 25, arranged in 2 rows, small, obovate and about 0 in length. Eight millimeters. The flowering period is from March to May.
Shepherd's purse shepherd's purse enjoys a high reputation. Literati who have had a hearty meal throughout the ages have recorded a series of lyrics and poems praising shepherd's purse. Lu You once recited Ten Rhymes of Eating Mustard, Su Shi wrote Twelve Books with Me, and Hua Tuo wrote Wild Recipes, all of which recorded the story of human eating mustard, which has been passed down to this day. On the third day of the third lunar month, there is a custom of "eating mustard and boiling eggs on the third of March". Visible, whether in ancient times or today, people have a special feeling for mustard!
With the passage of time and the precipitation of years, mustard has become a taste of home in my eyes. When I was a child, as a rural baby, I liked to walk along the field trails after school every time, because I could bend my head and pick a handful of mustard greens everywhere, hold them in my hand, run home quickly, hand them to my mother happily, and shout, "Mom, I want to eat shepherd's purse jiaozi. At this time, I have ignored how tired my mother is after a busy day! Slowly, in our primary school textbook, I read Jason's novel Digging Shepherd's Shepherd's Shepherd's Shepherd. In this simple line, I realized that shepherd's purse is not only a gourmet menu, but also a feeling that we need to continue!