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This amazingly graceful and beautiful plant is very unpretentious to living conditions, but it tries to make life easier for other plants, and also relieves the human body of many ailments
Number of plant leaves
It is unlikely that the botanists who gave the name to the plant were engaged in counting the leaves alternately sitting on the rounded stem of the plant. And plants are of different heights and bushiness, so not everyone can have the number of leaves stated in the name.
Simply, nature has so skillfully cut each leaf of any representative of the genus "Yarrow" into many miniature slices that no one doubts the correctness of the name, looking at this delicate splendor.
Number of plant flowers
The number of miniature leafy lobules is not inferior to the number of flowers that adorn strong bushes throughout the summer season.
Having learned that Yarrow belongs to the Asteraceae or Asteraceae family, you understand that this small fragrant creature, called a flower, is not a flower at all, but a whole inflorescence-basket formed by tubular bisexual flowers framed by reed petal flowers.
To make it easier to withstand the hardships of life, to exude a more persistent aroma that attracts pollinating insects, small inflorescence flowers form friendly families, larger inflorescences, which in turn become part of an even larger corymbose inflorescence. It is much easier for such an inflorescence to survive.
If someone undertakes to count the number of flowers on one bush, he can easily get to the number “thousand” or more. At least botanists claim that one plant produces up to 25 thousand seeds.
Reproduction
It is not surprising that, giving birth to such a number of seeds, the yarrow very easily conquers territories.
A creeping long thick rhizome, which works simultaneously on two "fronts", also helps the seeds in this. Growing, the rhizome builds up fibrous thin roots that extract nutrients from the soil for growth and development, and new plants appear on the surface of the earth.
Such a commonwealth in the extension of the genus allows you to meet Yarrow everywhere: at the edge of the forest, on the side of the road, in fields and meadows, as well as in the vegetable garden of your own garden.
The color of the petal flowers
Flowers-petals of wild-growing Yarrow are more often white, grayish-white, creamy-white, but sometimes they get bored with such monotony and they show the world delicate pinkish petals.
Species bred for decorative plantings have a richer palette of colors, but, as a rule, lose their healing powers. The world is so arranged that a generous soul does not always correspond to external beauty.
Human respected grass
For the healing abilities of Yarrow, man has long treated the plant with great respect. Constant wars for the redistribution of land holdings shed a lot of human blood, and therefore often had to resort to the help of a plant that knew how to stop bleeding and heal battle wounds. If Yarrow still knew how to heal sick heads who love to start wars, and to introduce into them the idea that one should respect not only plants, but also their own kind, there would be no price for it.
But he does not possess such an ability, therefore, today it is used to heal bodily wounds, stop bleeding, improve appetite, and treat diseases of the gastrointestinal system. Traditional healers manage to relieve a person from the most unbearable toothache with the help of Yarrow.
Gardeners value the plant for its ability to improve the environment by helping neighboring plants develop. In addition, the aroma of Yarrow is not to the taste of many hard-core crop eaters. Averting ants from the beds with its smell, it protects the vegetable tops from annoying aphids, guarded by ants. And mosquitoes in the area where the bushes of a modest and unpretentious plant grow are much less than where Yarrow is considered a weed.
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