Scientific Name: Geum aleppicum Jacq. AKA: Soft Hair Salicornia (Compendium of Materia Medica) Ranbuzheng (Yunnan) Tiger Palm Leaf, Five Breaths of Sunrise Grass, Dizziness Grass, Slim Dog Returning Sunshine, Pediatric Scare Grass. Family: Verbenaceae. Morphological features: Perennial herb. Harvesting and Storage: Harvest the whole grass in summer and fall. Chopped, dried or fresh. Ecological habits: Born in the altitude of 200-2300m hillside meadows, fields, riverside, scrub and under the forest. Origin and distribution: Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning; Nei Mongol, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu; Xinjiang, Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Xizang, Guangxi. Habitat distribution: grassland on mountain slopes, ditch edges, land edges, river banks, forest margins and forest fringes, 200-3500 m above sea level. Uses: the whole plant contains tannin, can be extracted tannin; the whole herb is used as medicine, with expectorant, dehumidification, analgesic, antispasmodic effect; the seeds contain dry oil, can be used to make soap and paint. Fresh leaves are edible. In some areas, they are used as big green leaves. Roots: roots in clusters. Stem: Stem erect, 30-100 cm tall, covered with spreading hirsute hairs and sparsely glabrous. Leaves: Basal leaves are large-headed pinnately compound, usually with 2-6 pairs of leaflets; with petiole 10-25 cm long, petiole hirsute, leaflets very unequal in size, terminal leaflet is the largest, rhombic broadly ovate or broadly compressed-orbicular, 4-8 cm long, 5-10 cm wide, apical tip acute or rounded, base broadly cordate to broadly obtuse. base broadly cordate to broadly cuneate, margin often lobed, irregularly coarsely serrate, serrations acute or rounded, both surfaces green, sparsely hirsute; cauline leaves pinnately compound, sometimes repetitively divided, with decreasing number of leaflets upward, terminal leaflet lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, often acuminate or shortly acuminate apically, base cuneate; cauline leaf stipules large, green, leaflike, ovate, margin irregularly coarsely serrate. Flowers: inflorescences terminal, sparsely arranged, pedicels pubescent or hirsute; flowers 1-1.7 cm in diam. apically acuminate, epicalyx segments narrow, lanceolate, apically acuminate, sparsely 2-lobed, more than 1x shorter than sepals, outside pubescent and villous; styles terminal, twisted in distal 1/4, detaching from twisted place at maturity, detached portion sparsely pubescent proximally. Seed: aggregate obovoid, achenes hirsute, style persistent part glabrous, apically hooked; carpopodium hispidulous, ca. 1 mm. Flowering: July-October. Fruiting period: July-October.