Lumbago open, or sleep-grass

Lumbago open, which is popularly called a sleep-grass, is a perennial herb of the genus Lumbago . At the end of April or early May, immediately after the snow cover, you can see a fabulously beautiful primrose plant. White, yellow, brownish-red and purple petals of delicate colors are shown in the spring.

External appeal

A plant in which flowers with six pointed petals of violet or lilac coloring is a chamber open. Its root system is vertical, multi-headed. In the lower part of the stem are formed basal, pinnately-dissected leaflets, and thin and long simple cauline leaves coalesce with bases. Both are covered with light fluff. Each individual plant on the top of the stem is formed by one large flower, in the form of a standing or lowered bell.

Description

Interesting features are wild grass - open chamber. The description of the species indicates that, under favorable conditions, it grows to a height of up to 25 centimeters, each year growing from a powerful dark brown root. Root leaves on long petioles grow after flowering, and die in autumn. The upright stem is also covered with soft fluffy hairs.

Flowers of dream-grass have numerous yellow stamens and pistils with long fluffy stems up to 5 centimeters in length. Outside, the petals are densely covered with down. Delicate tender heads or until the appearance of leaves, or simultaneously with them. Blossoms spring plant in April and May, forming at the end of the season oblong and strongly hairy fruits, which give the appearance of special decorative.

Spread of lumbago

Lumbago open-sleep-grass preferring sod-podzolic soils, characteristic for thinned pine forests, as well as mixed pine-birch and pine-oak forests. Flowers grow on the slopes and in thickets of berry bushes, on mosses and grassy bedding. Polyana lumbago can be found in the meadows and steppes of the European part of Russia, in Siberia and the Far East. In addition, the range of distribution of this species is Europe, Asia, North America.

Types of lumbago

The genus contains about 40 different species that grow in the cold, temperate, subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Most (26 species of the genus Prostrel) are observed on the territory of the republics of the former Soviet Union, including the open chamber, which grows in Central and Western Europe, in the European part of Russia, in the south of Western Siberia.

In light pine forests and on the fringes there are turrets of Turchaninov, spring, meadow. On high high plateaus and peaks of the Crimean mountains, as well as in the cracks of the rocks of the mountain ranges of Central Europe, one can find a Crimean view. Most varieties of sleep-grass are listed in the Red Book of the subjects of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Kazakhstan, and Estonia. These include the chamber open. The Red Book prohibits the destruction of a population of a rare plant that is threatened with extinction.

The following types of lumbago are known: alpine, ayan, spring, mountain, yellow, golden, campanulate, Crimean, meadow, common and many others. The main colors: white, yellow, red, blue-violet, lilac.

Favorable natural conditions for lumbago open

The open chamber, the photo of which is presented below, has a rather wide range of distribution. The spring plant feels equally well both in conditions of a moderately humid climate and in more arid places. Delicate purple flowers sprout not only on rich soils, but also can be content with poor, un-hydrated. Particularly sensitive to light and especially need sunlight in spring, during the flowering period.

Botanical description of sleep-grass

The lumbago open, or sleep grass, reaches a height of 7-15 to 40-50 centimeters, depending on the natural conditions. Like other species, the stems have a hairy covering. The desiccated leaves are long, palmate-dissected, discarded only after flowering. Prior to this, a large blue-violet flower up to 8 centimeters in diameter rises above the grass on the erect stalk.

The open chamber forms low, well-developed bushes on which up to 50 six-petalled flowers can simultaneously be blossomed. Flowering time is in April-May and lasts for 20-25 days. The herbaceous plant multiplies in most cases by seeds, although there have been cases of vegetative reproduction. A characteristic feature is the early flowering and early die-off of generative parts, although the leaves continue to vegetate all autumn, before the onset of winter cold.

High germination of seeds persists for two years, and then fades somewhat. Cotyledons of dream-grass are elongated, full of dark green color, on small, partly intergrown petioles. They remain until late autumn. As the plant develops, the first lower three-lobed leaves with noticeable venation appear, which are slightly covered with long whitish hairs. The upper leaves appear later, forming a rosette, and are abundantly pubescent, due to what the chamber open - sleep-grass - seems fluffy. It is interesting that for the winter period the plants remain with green leaves, but all life processes slow down.

Open chamber: medicinal properties

First of all, let's say that it is a poisonous grass, but its entire green overhead part is used for the preparation of medicines for various purposes. The value of a plant is that it even dried contains a large number of resins, tannins and saponins. The freshly cut sleep-grass is rich plus to all alkaloids - anemonin and ranunkulina.

Application in folk medicine

Due to its unique composition, a wide application in folk medicine has received lumbago open, or sleep grass. The Red Book, where it was brought not so long ago, limits its collection. In general, the herbaceous plant is used as a hypnotic and sedative. But this is not the only direction. Also sleep-grass has a powerful bactericidal, antifungal and expectorant effect.

This kind of lumbago has antipyretic and diuretic effect. In the recipes of traditional medicine, the grass is used to warm the joints of the limbs over the brewed herbs. Turchaninov's canal, which grows in the Transbaikalia, as well as the Daurian, which can be found in Primorye and the Amur Region, is used to treat pustular infections, as an analgesic, distracting remedy and to restore strength when the body is depleted.

The open chamber is suitable for rubbing the green juice of the inflamed rheumatic joints. Still fresh juice heals from glaucoma. Another species - a dumbbell drooping, growing in the east of the country - found its application in Chinese medicine. Broths of mature rhizomes are used as a hemostatic and astringent.

Naturally, before using miraculous properties of lumbago, you need to get professional advice from a doctor. There are certain contraindications associated with the fact that the plant is poisonous. In particular, in the presence of diseases such as gastritis and other pathologies of the gastrointestinal tract, nephritis. Drug collection is carried out during the flowering of sleep-grass, which lasts from April to May.

Since all types of lumbago have an incredibly attractive appearance, they organically look in group landscape plantings and will be an excellent decoration for lawns, alpine hills and park areas. And for those who want to excavate a rare and forbidden wild-growing specimen of the flower open for their garden, it will be useful to know that adult lumbago can not tolerate transplantation.