What is the scientific name of the bitter hemp seed flower endive. Endive is commonly known as take Ma Lai, bitter hemp seed, is a kind of wild vegetables with a long history of consumption in China.

Mainly distributed in northeastern, northern and northwestern China. Born on the roadside, next to the ground, garden and other places. Born on the roadside, field. Distributed in most parts of China. Mainly produced in Hebei, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Shandong and other places.

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Morphological features: Heads slightly larger, homomorphic, ligulate, containing numerous ligulate florets, usually more than 80, arranged in corymbs or corymbose panicles at the tips of stem branches. Involucre ovate, campanulate, terete, or saucer-shaped, often pendulous after flowering. Involucral bracts 3-5-layered, imbricate, herbaceous, inner involucral bracts lanceolate, long elliptic or long triangular, margin often membranous.

The receptacle is flat, without receptacle hairs. Ligulate florets yellow, bisexual, solid, ligulate tip truncate, 5-toothed, anther base short sagittate, style branches slender.

Achenes ovate or ellipsoid, rarely obconic, extremely compressed or thick, with numerous (up to 20) elevated longitudinal ribs, or a few longitudinal ribs, often transversely wrinkled, narrower at the tip, beakless. Crown hairs multilayered and numerous, fine, soft and entangled with each other, white, unifoliolate, the basal whole connected into rings or into groups, deciduous.

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