Catalog 1 Pinyin 2 Chinese name 3 Pinyin 4 Latin name 5 FRPS 6 Description 7 Species in the genus 1 Pinyin

huán yáng shēn shǔ

2 Chinese name

还阳参属

3 Pinyin

huanyangcanshu

4 Latin name

Crepis

5 FRPS

80(1) :104

6 Description

Crepis L. :104

6 Description

Crepis L. is a genus of about 200 species in the family Asteraceae, distributed from the north temperate zone to the tropics and South Africa, with about 25 species in China, produced in North China, Northeast China, Northwest China, and Southwest China, of which the roots of C. lignea (Vant.) Babc. are used as medicine to remove heat and toxins. Herbs annual or perennial; leaves often pinnatipartite, apical lobe largest: heads homogamous, pedicellate, solitary or arranged in various styles of panicle style; involucral bracts 2- to multiseriate; flowers all ligulate; receptacle baleful; achenes terete or fusiform, distinctly longitudinally ribbed, with a short rostrum or an inconspicuous rostrum, the apex crowned by a white crown of hairs.

7 Species

Dwarf red ginseng, northern red ginseng, Tibetan red ginseng, meadow red ginseng, long-bracted red ginseng, stemmed red ginseng, multi-stemmed red ginseng, fruiting mountain red ginseng, safflower red ginseng, red ginseng, golden red ginseng, green-stemmed red ginseng, whole-leafed red ginseng, shawan red ginseng, mountain red ginseng, tianshan red ginseng, curved-stemmed red ginseng, ten thousand fathoms, wuzha red ginseng, yakangzhu, turnip red ginseng. Ginseng, Siberian ginseng, Central Asian ginseng