Goose weed is about 5-500px in height, with slender stalks and a large number of branches, the pictures are as follows:

Goose weed is the whole grass of the plant stone caraway of the family of Asteraceae, which is mainly distributed in the Northeast of China, North China, Central China, East China, South China, and Southwest China, and it is harvested in May-October, when the flowers have not yet opened or are in the state of opening. Goosegrass is creeping growth, easy to root after the ground, glabrous or slightly with fine woolly hair. The leaf blade is cuneate-oblanceolate, about 7-20mm long and 3-5mm wide, with an obtuse apex and irregularly sparsely toothed margins, glabrous or slightly fine hairy abaxially.

The heads are solitary in the leaf axils, oblate, minute, about 3mm in diameter, sessile or nearly so. The involucre is hemispherical, ***2 layers of involucral bracts, elliptic-lanceolate, green in color, with membranous margins, the outer layer larger than the inner. Flowers are yellowish or yellowish-green, tubular, peripheral to the multilayered female flowers, the corolla is thin, tubular, with inconspicuous lobes. The central bisexual flower, the corolla is distinctly 4-lobed and tubular. Achenes are ellipsoid, about 1mm long, 4-angled, with long hairy margins and no crown hairs.

Goosegrass planting techniques

1, treatment of seeds

Goosegrass planting should be selected full, no moldy seeds, first of all, put the seeds into the sunshine to dry the water, and then rub the seeds with both hands to remove the surface of the seed coat, and then put the seeds into warm water to soak, to remove the surface of the wax, and finally the seeds and fine soil, fine sand mixed evenly. and mix well with fine soil and fine sand.

2, sowing planting

Sowing goose grass can take the method of sowing, strip sowing, sowing the seeds mixed with fine sand evenly sown in the field, mulching watering can be, strip sowing in the field to dig out rows spaced 30 centimeters apart in a shallow ditch, will be sown in a ditch, and then mulch buried.

3, field management

Goose weed requires little water, keep the soil moist during the breeding period, without frequent watering, and in the seedlings, to observe the growth of seedlings, timely removal of poor seedlings, and replanting of strong seedlings, and goose weed short growing period, during which to increase the application of farmyard fertilizer, to promote plant growth.