1, sand ginseng and mountain carrot is the same species, sand ginseng is mountain carrot another alias. Mountain carrot has sand ginseng, mountain conch, dense flower rock wind and other aliases. It is a highly nutritious wild vegetable and herb. Its roots, stems and leaves are edible and can also be used as medicine. It is a more sexually yin medicinal ingredient.

2, it is considered a herbaceous plant, the root is carrot-like, unbranched height up to 1 meter. The plant is erect and unbranched with pseudo-racemes or panicles, narrow pedicels and entire calyx or serrated. The corolla is usually purple or blue, the pedicel short, the lower part of the filaments swollen into a thin sheet, the anthers slender; the ovary inferior, the ovules numerous. The seeds are oval. It flowers in July and August. Roots into anthers. Plant in the fall, remove the above-ground parts and fibrous roots, scrape off the rough skin, dry immediately, etc.