The wolfsbane flower is a perennial herb with alternate leaves and beautiful flowers for viewing. The wolfsbane flower is a plant with very strong vitality. Let’s enjoy the wolfsbane flower together. Let’s introduce flower pictures and information about Wolfsbane flower.

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A perennial herbaceous plant with oblong, whorled leaves, unisexual flowers, and oblate capsules. The roots are poisonous and can be used in traditional Chinese medicine to eliminate phlegm and relieve pain. It is mostly found in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau of my country. Its roots, stems, and leaves contain a lot of poison. It can be made into a medicine for external application, which can eliminate accumulated blood and clear blood. It can also be used as a pesticide to control borers and aphids. But humans and animals must not eat it. Wolfsbane flower has a large root system and strong water absorption ability. It can adapt to dry and cold climates and is difficult for surrounding herbaceous plants to compete with. The more developed its root system is, the more toxic it is.

Morphological characteristics of Wolfsbane flower

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① Wolfsbane flower, also known as: Broken intestine grass, bowl flower, mountain dandelion, A handful of incense.

Perennial herb, 20-40 cm tall. Root cylindrical. The stems are bushy, smooth and hairless, and the lower part is woody, brown or red. Single leaves are alternate and dense; narrowly ovate to linear, 1 to 3 cm long, 2 to 10 mm wide, entire, glabrous on both sides; slightly leathery when old; petiole extremely short. The inflorescence is terminal, about 2.5 cm in diameter, with many flowers; the calyx is often crown-shaped, white or yellow, with purple-red color, the calyx tube is thin tube-shaped, the apex has 5 lobes, the lobes are flat, oblong to obovate; stamens are 10, Born in 2 rows at the throat; the ovary is superior, the upper part is densely covered with fine hairs, the style is short, and the stigma is capitate. The fruit is ovate and enclosed by the base of the perianth tube. 1 seed. The flowering period is from May to June.

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②Wolfsbane Euphorbia

A perennial herb, 15 to 40 cm high, with white latex throughout. The roots are fleshy and fleshy. The lower stem leaves are scaly, membranous, and light brown; the middle and upper leaves are whorled with 3 to 5 leaves, sessile; the leaves are oblong or oblong-ovate, 4 to 6.5 cm long and 1 to 3 cm wide. The apex is blunt or acute, and the base is rounded. Cup-shaped cymes are terminal, arranged in a compound umbrella shape; the umbrella stem has 5 branches, and there are 5 leaf-like bracts at the base; each branch is further divided into 3 branches, with 3 triangular oval bracts at the branches, and the tips of the branchlets It has 2 smaller bracts and 1 to 3 cup-shaped cymes; most male flowers are born in the cup-shaped involucre, with 5 lobes at the apex of the involucre and 5 glands alternate with the lobes; the male flowers only have 1 stamen. The female flower has only 1 pistil, an oblate ovary, 3 styles, and the apex is lobed into 2 forked stigmas. The capsule is oblate spherical, with 3 longitudinal grooves, and is brown. The flowering period is from May to June. The fruiting period is from June to July.

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③ Euphorbia lunarensis

Perennial herb, 30 to 50 cm high. The leaves are alternate; the leaves are narrowly oval or elliptical-lanceolate, 4 to 8 cm long, 1.5 to 2 cm wide, with a rounded apex and a wedge-shaped base. Cup-shaped cymes, arranged in a compound umbrella shape; 5-branched umbrella stem, with 4 to 5 oval-lanceolate or triangular-ovate leaf-like bracts at the base; each branch is further divided into 2 branches, and the branches are There are 2 triangular-ovate or broad-ovate bracts, with 2 smaller bracts and 1 cup-shaped cyme at the apex of the branch; male and female flowers are born in a calyx-shaped cup-shaped involucre, with 4 involucres at the apex. Shallow lobes, 4 glands. The capsule is smooth and hairless. The flowering period is from May to June.

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