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Concrete (lat.betonica) - a flowering plant from the Lamiaceae family.
Description
Concrete is a short-rhizome grass that forms incredibly decorative and rather dense bushes of leaf rosettes. And her leaves are ovoid, crenate at the edges, with heart-shaped bases and slightly wrinkled.
Approximately in the middle of summer, concrete produces rather long peduncles (up to thirty to forty centimeters in length) with magnificent spike-shaped inflorescences. The flowers of this plant are quite large and usually have a light purple, light purple or pinkish color, and the flowering of concrete is almost always in June and July, but in some cases the concrete pleases with its wonderful flowering until September.
In total, the genus of concrete includes about fifteen species.
Where grows
Most often, concrete can be found in zones with a temperate climate, mainly in meadows, as well as in forest-steppe and forest zones. It grows well both in the Caucasus and on the territory of almost all of Europe.
Usage
Concrete is widely used not only for decorative, but also for medicinal purposes. Moreover, there were times when it was even used in official medicine! For medicinal purposes, not only concrete roots are used, but also grass along with inflorescences. Grass for these purposes is usually harvested in the summer, at the initial stage of its flowering, cutting off each plant at a height of ten to fifteen centimeters from the ground. Further, all the collected raw materials must be sorted out, quickly getting rid of damaged and yellowed leaves, and then sent to dry under the awnings installed in the shade. You can store the raw materials prepared in this way for two years.
Concrete can be used both as a means of strengthening the nervous system and for sciatica, headache or sciatica. Hypertensive patients with the help of this plant can reduce pressure, and concrete is also used for diseases of the liver and stomach, as well as for pneumonia, whooping cough and bronchitis. And tea made from concrete will serve well for all kinds of intestinal ailments or diarrhea.
Sufficiently fatty oil is extracted from concrete seeds, and this plant is also an excellent honey plant. The powder of dried concrete can be used quite successfully as a remedy for rodents, and the grass is suitable for dyeing wool in brownish-olive tones.
Growing and caring
It is recommended to plant concrete in sunny areas characterized by moderate moisture and the presence of fertile and well-drained soils.
The concrete is propagated either by seeds (they are sown before winter), or by dividing the bushes at the end of summer or in the spring. At the same time, one should not forget that the seedlings will bloom only in the third year. As for the planting density, ideally it should be twelve pieces of concrete for each square meter of area.
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