The open chamber, which is popularly referred to as dream grass, is a perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Cross chamber from the family Ranunculaceae. In late April or early May, immediately after the snow cover has disappeared, you can see a fabulously beautiful primrose plant. White, yellow, brown-red and purple petals of delicate flowers, lumbago announce spring has arrived.
Outward appeal
A plant in which flowers with six pointed petals of purple or lilac color is an open chamber. Its root system is vertical, many-headed. In the lower part of the stem, basal, cirrus dissected leaflets are formed, and thin and long simple stem leaves are fused with bases. Both of them are covered with a light fluff. Each individual plant at the top of the stem forms one large flower, in shape resembling an erect or lowered bell.
Description
Wild grass has interesting features - open chamber. The description of the species indicates that under favorable conditions it grows up to 25 centimeters high, growing every year from a powerful dark brown root. Root leaves on long stalks grow after flowering, and die in the fall. The upright stalk is also covered with soft fluffy hairs.
Flowers of dream grass have numerous yellow stamens and pistils with long fluffy columns up to 5 centimeters in length. Outside, the petals are densely covered with down. Tender heads bloom either before the leaves appear, or simultaneously with them. The spring plant blooms in April and May, forming at the end of the season oblong and highly hairy fruits that give the appearance a special decorative effect.
Lumbago spread
Open cross - sleep-grass - prefers sod-podzolic soils, characteristic of thinned pine forests, as well as mixed pine-birch and pine-oak forests. Flowers grow on the slopes and in the thickets of berry shrubs, on mosses and grass litter. Sack glade can be found in meadows and steppes in the European part of Russia, in Siberia and the Far East. In addition, the distribution area of this species is Europe, Asia, North America.
Lumbago species
The genus has approximately 40 different species growing in cold, temperate, subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Most (26 species of the genus Proskret) are observed on the territory of the republics of the former Soviet Union, including the open cross, which grows in Central and Western Europe, in the European part of Russia, in the south of Western Siberia.
In bright pine forests and at the edges there are lumbago Turchaninova, spring, meadow. On the vast vast plateaus and peaks of the Crimean mountains, as well as in the fissures of the cliffs of the mountains of Central Europe, you can find the Crimean species. 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. Open fire also belongs to them. 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, yellowing, golden, bell-shaped, Crimean, meadow, ordinary, and many others. Primary colors: white, yellow, red, blue-violet, lilac.
Favorable natural conditions for lumbago open
Open chamber, photo of which is presented below, has a fairly wide range of distribution. A spring plant feels equally well both in a moderately humid climate and in more arid places. Delicate purple flowers sprout not only in rich soils, but can also be content with poor, moist. Particularly sensitive to light and especially need sunlight in the spring, during flowering.
Botanical description of dream grass
Open chamber, or grass, reaches a height of 7-15 to 40-50 centimeters, depending on natural conditions. Like other species, the stems are hairy. The pubescent leaves are long, palmately dissected, ejected only after flowering. Prior to this, a large blue-violet flower with a diameter of up to 8 centimeters rises above the grass on an erect stem.
The open chamber forms low, well-developed bushes on which up to 50 six-petal flowers can bloom simultaneously. Flowering time falls on April-May and lasts for 20-25 days. The herbaceous plant propagates in most cases by seed, although there have been cases of vegetative propagation. A characteristic feature is the early flowering and early dying of the generative parts, although the leaves continue to vegetate all fall, until the onset of winter cold.
High germination of seeds persists for two years, and then fades away somewhat. The cotyledons of dream grass are elongated, saturated dark green in color, on small, partially fused petioles. Persist until late autumn. As the plant develops, first the first lower three-lobed leaves with a 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 which the open chamber - sleep-grass - seems fluffy. Interestingly, in the winter, plants remain with green leaves, but all life processes slow down.
Backache: healing properties
First of all, we say that this is a poisonous herb, but its entire green aboveground part is used for the preparation of medicines for various purposes. The value of the plant lies in the fact that even dried it contains a large amount of resins, tannins and saponins. Freshly cut dream grass is rich in plus everything else with alkaloids - anemonin and ranunculin.
Application in traditional medicine
Due to its unique composition, a wide open use in folk medicine has been obtained for open lumbago, or sleep grass. The Red Book, where he was entered not so long ago, limits its collection. Basically, a herbaceous plant is used as a sleeping pill and sedative. But this is not the only direction. Also, sleep grass has a powerful bactericidal, antifungal and expectorant effect.
This type of lumbago has an antipyretic and diuretic effect. In traditional medicine recipes, grass is used to warm sick joints of limbs over brewed herbs. The lumbago Turchaninova, which grows in Transbaikalia, as well as Daurian, which can be found in Primorye and the Amur Region, is used to treat abscess infections, as a painkiller, distracting agent and to restore strength when the body is depleted.
The open chamber is suitable for rubbing with squeezed juice the green of inflamed rheumatic joints. Still fresh juice heals glaucoma. Another species - drooping lumbar, growing in the east of the country - has found its application in Chinese medicine. Decoctions of mature rhizomes are used as a hemostatic and astringent.
Naturally, before using the miraculous properties of lumbago, you need to get professional medical advice. 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 gastrointestinal pathologies, nephritis. Medicinal collection is carried out during the flowering period 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 become an excellent decoration of lawns, alpine slides and park areas. And for those who want to dig a rare and forbidden wild-growing specimen of open flower for their garden, information that adult backache cannot tolerate transplantation will be useful.