Qingming grass is a wild grass, soft to the touch, covered with a layer of cogongrass, with thick roots, short stems, and small but particularly cute flowers. Qingming grass is used to make food in rural areas. It should be noted that Qingming grass is not mugwort. Don't confuse the two plants. 1. Plant style

Qingming grass is a kind of wild grass. It feels soft and not so tough. There is a layer of white hair covering the plant. The soft light powder ball is kneaded in the hand, and there is a faint fragrance. During the flowering period, small flowers like chrysanthemums can bloom, which look very cute. 2. Plant characteristics

Qingming grass has clusters of fleshy roots, with thick roots and short stem nodes. The plant height is between 15 and 35 cm. The flowers of Qingming grass are terminal, and the petals are red or pink, as well as green, yellow-green, etc. The flowering period is from February to May, and the fruiting period is from March to June. 3. Edible

Generally, in rural areas, the picked Qingming grass will be crushed and mixed with glutinous rice flour to make glutinous rice cake. Such glutinous rice cake is soft, fragrant and has a great taste. In the south, people who eat Qingming grass are made into Qingming dumplings and used as rice cakes, pounded into molds and eaten directly as a whole, or fried with salt. 4. It’s not mugwort

Some people don’t know the difference between Qingming grass and mugwort, and they always mistake Qingming grass for mugwort. In fact, there is a difference between the two. It is still very large, and mugwort belongs to the medicinal herb variety. Qingming grass is more of a wild grass species used for food. Mugwort can repel mosquitoes, but Qingming grass cannot repel mosquitoes.