Now, this fragrant grass, many people call it wild pond artemisia, wild chamomile. At times, it can be smelled that it has some special aroma. In addition, after it blooms, the flower buds bloom around a kind of silk-like pom pom, or so people call it a fragrant silk grass.

1. What kind of grass grows on the ground?

Recently, I have noticed that the plant is in bloom, with many yellow cone-shaped buds hanging from many of the plants. In the green receptacle, one bud is facing upwards, and each bud looks like a honeycomb hole in the center of the top, with filaments hidden deep inside, just waiting to bloom.

There were quite a few plants with buds that were already fully bloomed, and they looked like dandelion fluffy flowers, with tiny, dense filaments, a little darker in color, and earthy yellow cores. There are even some filaments that seem to have escaped all together, leaving a small earthy yellow ball, like a small soybean standing quietly on the branch. Most of the filamentous pom pom flowers, they are in the green stems and leaves, a small small, starry, staggered, look quite a lot of fun.

2. The balsam is a common herb and an invasive exotic plant.

In fact, the fragrant grass, is an annual or biennial herb in the genus Asteraceae white wine grass, it's fusiform roots, stems erect or obliquely, often branched above the center. Its leaves are more dense, the lower leaves oblanceolate or oblong lanceolate, coarsely toothed or pinnately lobed, the middle and upper leaves narrowly lanceolate or linear, the middle leaves are toothed, the upper leaves are entire, both sides are densely covered with adnate strigose. Its flowers for the Asteraceae **** have the head, at the end of the stem arranged in racemose or racemose panicle.

Wildfires are not easy to kill, but they grow again in the spring. Balsam grass is an exotic invasive plant that is said to have its home in South America, and by now, is widely distributed in tropical as well as subtropical regions. Fragrance grass growth and diffusion ability is very strong, long place is very random, more growth in the wasteland, field and roadside, often in the mulberry, tea and orchard growth, the occurrence of a large amount of heavy damage, is the ridge, the house next to the wasteland and the occurrence of a large number of weeds one. Although the invasion of the fragrant silk grass, wild plants, ornamental plants and crops have an impact, many farmers in their own fields, after seeing it, hate to remove it, so as not to affect the growth of crops.

3. As a very common weed, what is the special role of the herb?

Actually, those who know the herb, on the contrary, feel that it is very common, there is no big deal whatsoever. It is our usual in the roadside, often see a very common weeds, weeds, most people do not take it as what important plants, or even turn a blind eye.

But, born to be useful, fragrant silk grass also has a lot of value. It is said that its whole herb can be used as medicine, with the effect of dispersing wind and relieving epidemics, moving qi and relieving pain, and dispelling wind and removing dampness. Folk have used the fresh herb to boil water to take, can treat summer wind-heat cold, spleen and stomach qi stagnation and other symptoms, and with the herb boiled water to wash the painful joints, but also play a role in relieving pain, rheumatism.

4. Not only is the name of Fragrant Silkweed very elegant, but it also has an old poignant story.

We still remember, there is such a story, about: "the sky immortal bird, on the ground incense grass," the poignant legend. The rumor is that the one known as the bird of immortality, that is, refers to the Egyptian ancient myth of a fire bird. It is rumored that the immortal bird can live forever. Only every five hundred years, the immortal bird will collect all kinds of fragrant twigs or grass leaves, and after folding them up, set fire to itself. Then, it is reborn in the fire. Legend has it that the scented blades of grass collected by the bird of immortality refer to the fragrant grass on the ground, which is full of unusual mystery!

Incinerating the God Bird Fragrant Silkweed, Pompom Bulb Flower Wild Pond Artemisia ......