The scorpion-like shape is scorpion grass, also known as bee hemp, also known as long-medicine sedum and gorgeous sedum. It belongs to the Urticaceae family.

Scorpion grass is also known as giant nettle, giant water chestnut, red clover, and hemp grass. It is distributed in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Henan, Shaanxi, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Anhui, Chongqing, Hubei and other places in China. It is also distributed in Japan.

Morphological characteristics

Annual herb. Stem height 30-100 cm, wheat straw color or purple-red with sparse thorns and fine strigose hairs, almost unbranched. The leaves are membranous, broadly ovate or nearly round, 5-19 cm long, 4-18 cm wide, with short tail-like or short acuminate apex, nearly round, truncate or shallow heart-shaped base, sparsely wide wedge-shaped.

There are 8-13 notched coarse or heavy teeth on the edge, sparsely 3-lobed in the middle, with sparse and fine strigose hairs on the upper surface, sparse micro-histable hairs on the lower surface, and very little growth on both sides. Stinging hairs, 3 veins at the base, 3-5 pairs of lateral veins, slightly arcuate, with inconspicuous meshwork at the edges; petiole 2-11 cm long, sparse stinging hairs and fine strigose hairs; stipules lanceolate. The nettle is shaped or triangular-lanceolate, 6-10 mm long, with sparse fine hairs on the outside.