The efficacy and function of Baicaowang

Baicaowang is a green plant of the Asteraceae family. It is a perennial herb with a height of 40 to 100 cm. Achenes, with soft hairs, and pappus milky white. It grows beside fields, roadsides, hillsides, and forests. It is produced in the eastern, southern and northwestern provinces and cities of my country. Harvest in summer and autumn, wash, and use fresh or dry.

Shape characteristics of Baicaowang

Perennial herb. The stem is thick, about 1m high, with many branches at the top, grooved, and densely covered with light yellow glandular soft hairs. The leaves are oblong or spoon-shaped, 8-18cm long and 2-7.5cm wide, obtuse at the apex, with sparsely serrated edges, gradually narrowing at the tip, and extending downward to the stems and branches. The wings are entire, sessile, densely covered with glandular hairs on both sides, with thick midrib and raised on both sides; there are 8-10 pairs of lateral veins, and the reticulate veins are prominent; the leaves at the top of the stem are small, slender, annular or linear, acute or obtuse at the apex, with sparsely serrated edges or no teeth. Most of the capitula are 1 cm in diameter, loose, densely covered with glandular short soft hairs, and arranged in large to medium-sized racemose cymose capitula at the ends of stems and branches;

The involucre is nearly bell-shaped, with about 6 layers of bracts. The surface layer is leaf-like, long-ringed or ovate-long-ringed, with short or acuminate apex, and the back is densely covered with verrucous glandular ducts and mixed with glandular short soft hairs. The inner layer is moist membranous, linear, and the back is sparsely covered with glandular dots and short soft hairs. The female flowers are double-layered, corolla-shaped, with 3 to 4 small teeth on the eaves. Most of the flowers are tubular, Corolla light purple, with 5 shallowly fissured teeth on the rim, sparsely covered with nipple-shaped glandular dots or short soft hairs, and the ovary is sterile. Achenes are cylindrical, with 10 longitudinal ridges, sparsely covered with milky white soft hairs. The crest is milky white and easy to fall off. The flowering period is from October to February of the following year.

Baicaowang identification characteristics

It is a herbaceous plant with short and thick rhizomes, upright stems, many branches, 4 to 6 ridges, and emerald green wing-like attachments on the ridges. The whole plant is densely covered with light yellow soft hairs and glandular dots and has a special smell.

Leaves: Leaves are elliptical-lanceolate or elliptical.

Flowers: One to more monochasium-shaped inflorescences, tubular in shape, blue-purple in color.

Fruit: Achenes pubescent.