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Today, the weed that the author shares, it is extremely common in the countryside, because it likes to grow in the vegetable garden, so it is often used as a weed by farmers, it seems to be a useless weed, but in the past when every household raised pigs, it was an excellent pigweed.
Because the shape of its leaves is somewhat similar to that of bamboo leaves, it has the nickname "bamboo leaf grass", and many people think that it is the duck plantar grass that everyone is very familiar with. In fact, its leaves are wider than those of duck plant, and it can be said to be the "sister" of duck plant.
This kind of wild grass has a very ugly botanical scientific name is Cooking Grass, because its flowers last for a very short time, open in the morning, and will wither in the evening, the speed is very fast, it is suitable to describe it as "rice pack", so the ancients named it "Rice Pack".
Due to the wide distribution of rice plant, there are different aliases in many areas, such as millennia, thousand sun, horseear, ovulated duck plant, round leaf duck plant, etc. are all other names of rice plant, it is the same duck plantar plant of the duck plantar family, but the duck plantar is an annual herb, and the rice plantar is a perennial herb.
In addition to being more common in vegetable gardens, rice wrapping grass is wild in underforests, roadsides, wetlands, grasses, hillsides, etc., and is mainly produced in Shandong, Hebei, Shaanxi, Hexi, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Jiangsu, Fujian, Yunnan, Sichuan and other provinces and regions in the mainland.
It is a creeping herbaceous plant, its stems are more branched, and there are adventitious roots at the nodes, the whole plant has sparse pubescence, the petiole is obvious, the single leaves are alternate, ovate or oval-ovate, the color is light green, and the leaves look wider than the duck plant, so it is also called the broad-leaved duck plant.
The way the rice bun grass blooms is also very distinctive, it is composed of three blue petals, of which the upper two petals are slightly larger, symmetrically expanded, and the lower petal is relatively small, and the flower bloom is blue, like a blue flame, similar to when a match is lit, so it has the nickname of "match head".
In the past, there was also an excellent hogweed of this rice wrapper, and pigs also liked to eat it. At the same time, the young leaves of the rice wrapping grass are also an excellent wild vegetable, which can be stir-fried, cold dressed, made soup, filling, boiled noodles, shabu-shabu, etc., the taste is fragrant, and it has a unique flavor to eat, which is incomparable to many vegetables now.
In fact, the rice wrap grass is not only high in edible value, but also in medicinal value, its whole herb can be used in medicine, with the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, dampness and swelling, cough, urination, urinary frequency, urgency, painful urination, sore throat, mouth ulcers, dysentery, boils, bruises and other diseases have curative effects.
I didn't expect this rice weed, which was used as pigweed in the past, to have so many effects, no wonder the older generation often said that "there is no idle grass in the countryside, and everything is a treasure", but now many people lack the awareness of these weeds.
Dear friends, do you have this kind of rice wrap grass in your hometown? It is a kind of "match head" hidden in the vegetable garden, which used to be pigweed, but in fact it is not of ordinary value, so let's get to know it quickly. If you meet in your hometown, please cherish it and don't get rid of it as a weed.
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