The pronunciation of the character 荠 is: jì, qí.

Shepherd's purse is an upper and lower structure, with the initials "艹", **** has 9 drawings, and is pronounced ji or qi, meaning annual or perennial herb. Shepherd's purse: meaning annual or perennial herb, leaves narrow, pinnately divided, flowers white, stems and leaves edible when young, the whole herb can be used as medicine. Water chestnut: Anciently known as eiderophthalmus. It is also known as Uroko. In some areas, the name is ground chestnut, ground pear, horseshoe.

A perennial herb, planted in the paddy fields, with runners, the apex of the bulb. Bulb can be used as a vegetable, can replace the fruit, can also make starch, as traditional Chinese medicine. It is also known as the protective grass. Its stem is hard and hairy, not delicious. It has small white flowers, many of which are clustered together. The pods have only three horns. It is harvested in April, and is called the life-protecting herb because its stem protects against mosquitoes and moths.

Capsella (scientific name: Capsella bursa-pastoris (Linn.) Medic.) Cruciferae Capsella genus of annual or biennial herbs, up to 50 cm tall, stems erect, basal leaves clustered rosette, petiole length of 5-40 mm, stem leaves narrowly lanceolate or lanceolate, racemes terminal and axillary, sepals oblong, white petals

Capsicum grows on mountain slopes, field margins and roadsides, wild, occasionally cultivated. It is distributed in all provinces and regions of China, and widely distributed in temperate regions of the world. Shepherd's purse can be used as medicine, stem and leaves for vegetable consumption, seeds containing oil, for the production of paint and soap.

Morphological features:

Annual or biennial herbs, (7-)10-50 cm tall, glabrous, with simple or forked hairs; stems erect, single or branched from below. Basal leaves clustered in rosettes, lyrate-pinnatifid, up to 12 cm long, up to 2.5 cm wide, terminal lobe ovate to oblong, 5-30 mm long, 2-20 mm wide, lateral lobes 3-8 pairs, oblong to ovate.

5-15 mm long, apically acuminate, lobed, or irregularly coarsely serrate or subentire, petiole 5-40 mm long; cauline leaves narrowly lanceolate or lanceolate, 5-6.5 mm long, 2-15 mm wide, base aristate, clasping, margin notched or serrate. Racemes terminal and axillary, lengthening to 20 cm in fruit; pedicels 3-8 mm long; sepals oblong, 1.5-2 mm long.

Petals white, ovate, 2-3 mm long, shortly clawed. Short-horned fruit obtriangular or obcordate-triangular, 5-8 mm long, 4-7 mm wide, flattened, glabrous, apically retuse, cleistogamous with reticulate veins; style ca. 0.5 mm; fruiting pedicel 5-15 mm long. Seeds in 2 rows, long elliptic, ca. 1 mm, light brown. Flowering and fruiting April-June.