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Marsh cinquefoil grows mainly in swampy and damp places. The best habitats for it are swampy forests, marshy meadows, moss and grass swamps, as well as the banks of stagnant water bodies. On the territory of Russia, this handsome man can be found literally everywhere - from the Black Sea in the south to the Arctic Ocean in the north. The plant resembles small shrubs. Marsh cinquefoil is also endowed with a number of valuable medicinal properties - mention of them can be found even in the legends of the peoples of Eastern Siberia. And in gardens, this plant serves as a marsh-coastal plant for the design of reservoirs
Getting to know the plant
Marsh cinquefoil is a herbaceous perennial, representing the Pink family, endowed with rather strong, branched, creeping and long rhizomes covered with short hairs. Such peculiar rhizomes help the plant to winter and give slightly rising shoots. And on these shoots, in groups of 5 - 7 pieces, oblong and close pinnate leaves grow. All leaves are provided with sharp-edged edges and stipules adherent to the petioles. Their undersides are gray-felt, and the upper ones are dark green. The height of the marsh cinquefoil is on average 30 - 40 cm, but sometimes it can reach a meter.
The few, but surprisingly beautiful and regular bisexual flowers of the marsh cinquefoil are painted in dark red shades. All flowers are equipped with double cups and subchains consisting of five small leaves. The marsh cinquefoil also has five sepals - inside they are dark red, pointed and ovoid. And five lanceolate dark-red petals are slightly pointed and shorter than sepals by two or three times. Marsh cinquefoil blooms, as a rule, in small inflorescences, including two or three luxurious buds. Its blossoming flowers are very similar to beautiful stars.
As for the fruits of this marsh inhabitant, they are naked achenes sitting on very bizarre spongy-fleshy receptacles.
The use of marsh cinquefoil
This marsh plant has long and successfully been used in folk medicine. The first mentions of marsh cinquefoil as a valuable medicinal plant in Russia date back to the distant 17th century. This colorful swamp dweller is an excellent diaphoretic, and is also great for aches and diarrhea. It is also used to treat horses from chemer. Healing properties are endowed not only with the rhizomes of the marsh beauty, but also with its stems with leaves.
Our distant ancestors used teas and decoctions from this plant to restore the body's working capacity and strength. And from the marsh cinquefoil, miraculous ointments based on goose fat were made - these ointments were widely used for injuries and sprains.
There are very few contraindications to the use of this medicinal plant - children's age, pregnancy and lactation, as well as individual intolerance.
Among other things, the marsh cinquefoil is also an excellent early summer and late spring honey plant, providing bees with pollen and nectar.
How to grow
Marsh cinquefoil is very hygrophilous, so swampy areas will certainly become the best places for its growth. It is best to transplant this plant to areas directly from natural conditions, since marsh cinquefoil grows from seeds for a long time. For a transplant, a twenty-centimeter piece of rhizome will be quite enough.
As for the soil, for the full development of the marsh cinquefoil, it is best to stop the choice on loose acidic soils. And you can make the soil such without much difficulty by adding fresh peat to the site intended for planting.
Marsh cinquefoil is planted on swampy shores or in shallow waters (up to 15 cm deep) directly into the ground. From time to time it will be necessary to limit the distribution of this bog dweller. And to make the task easier, you can initially plant the plant in containers.
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