2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Following Mother-and-Stepmother, Medunitsa and Crested plants, other plants are in a hurry to notify the world about the arrival of spring. It is already easier for them to demonstrate their beauty, because spring confidently strides across the planet, giving warmth and light
Anemone
When it's time to bloom
Anemone, under the feet of a lover of forest walks, last year's foliage no longer rustles, since it is hiding under the green-yellow carpet of a plant, which at first glance looks unpretentious.
Latin name for Anemone, Anemone, means "wind", thrilling its simple delicate flowers, crowning relatively tall thin stems-peduncles, born from a spread rosette of heavily cut leaves. After all, the trees are just beginning to be covered with sticky leaves and do not protect the delicate plant from gusts of wind. But, through such a rare crown, the sun's rays easily make their way to the Anemone, and she, like all spring flowers, is very photophilous.
The lifespan of the aerial parts of the Anemone, like that of the fragile Corydalis, is very short. Therefore, she is in a hurry to leave offspring on Earth by the arrival of summer, when her leaves and flowers wither and only the rhizome remains, which preserves nutrient reserves in the soil for the next season.
Yellow flowers are given to the world by Buttercup Anemone, and there are species whose flowers are pure white or white with a pinkish tinge. These are, respectively, Forest anemone and Dubravnaya anemone. They are more delicate, but you can not find them as often as the buttercup anemone.
In man-made flower beds, not only spring Anemone is grown, but also species that bloom in the summer-autumn period. You can read about it here:
www.asienda.ru/sadovye-cvety/yarkaya-prostota-anemony/
Certain species of Anemone have healing powers.
Chistyak
If you do not look closely at the shape of the leaves, do not count the petals of the flowers, then
Chistyak can easily be confused with
Anemone … They bloom at the same time, when spring gives the first warmth and a lot of sunshine.
However, Chistyak's flowers, although colored yellow, are richer in the number of petals than Anemone's (from 6 to 14 petals against, as a rule, 5 pieces).
As for the leaves, they can be confused by a completely indifferent or inattentive person. After all, Chistyak has whole leaves, and not gracefully cut, like the fragile Anemone. And Chistyak surpassed Anemone with the number of leaves in the root rosette. In addition, the leaves are located on the stem. Therefore, in the Chistyak carpet there is more green than yellow.
Plants also differ in the underground part. If Anemone has a nutritious rhizome in the soil, then Chistyak stores food in elongated small nodules. It is interesting that the plant creates nodules not only in the soil, but also in the leaf axils. Having matured, they fall to the ground and germinate, continuing the existence of Chistyak. Although the plant also has seeds that wait patiently in the ground for their spring for almost a year.
Chistyak has many healing abilities, if the leaves and nodules are collected before the seeds ripen, since after their ripening the plant turns into poisonous.
Goose bow
Another yellow-eyed spring plant with a short growing season boldly enters the world in early spring, so that, leaving offspring in the form of bulbs, it will disappear again until next spring.
Bulbs
Goose onion, as in Chistyak, are formed not only underground, but also in the axils of leaves, and sometimes even in place of flower buds. There was a time when people gathered and boiled onions to diversify their meals. They were also used by traditional medicine.
After small stellate flowers, seeds remain, which are equipped with bait outgrowths - a nutritious delicacy for the ubiquitous hardworking ants. The ants eat the bait, and the remaining seeds find a new place of residence. Protected by a layer of snow, they begin to develop even in winter, in order to reveal their thin leaves to the world, as soon as small thawed patches appear on the slopes of ravines.
You look at these bold little Goose Onions and admire the resilience and vitality of natural plants.
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