Genus Agrimonia

1st genus of the Rose

1. Perennian herbs, roots tilted, often underground buds. Odd plume-like compound leaves, with toe leaves. Small flowers, the sexes into a top-shaped spike-shaped total flower sequence; a barrel gyro-shaped, prismatic, with several layers of hooks on the top, the flower back close, carried out or folded back; slivers
5
, cladding arrangement; petals
5
, yellow; male
5
to
15
or more, in a row born outside the flower plate, females often
2,
pieces, hidden in the barrel, flower column top, out of the cylinder, the column head slightly enlarged, the embryo beads per per skin
1
pieces, sagging. Thin fruit
1

2
, wrapped in a hooked barrel, seeds
1
. There are more
than 10
species in the world, distributed in the northern temper belt and tropical alpine regions and Latin America. There are more
species
, distributed in the north and south provinces and regions., also known as melon vanilla, crane grass, roadside yellow or ground fairy grass. Produced all over China, often born in the stream, roadside, grassland, thicket and forest side. Central Europe, the Soviet Union, Mongolia, Korea, Japan and northern Vietnam are all distributed. Whole herbal medicine, has the effect of converging to stop the bleeding, and has a strong heart effect. The commercially available hemorrhage inhibitor crane grass, that is, the preparation of this product. Underground root buds in late autumn and early spring in northeast China are used as special effects drugs for insect repellent. The active ingredient is henna phenol (
C
26H
34O
8 ). In addition, the whole plant contains tanning, can begum, pesticides, mashed water spraying crops, has the effect of preventing aphids and wheat rust. Its hairy variant is called Huanglongtail, or Nepali dragon bud grass, produced throughout the country, southwest of Teodo, distributed to Nepal, Sijin, Myanmar and other countries, the same medicinal effect. In addition, there are still locally distributed species such as small flower dragon bud grass, toye dragon bud grass, large flower dragon bud grass and so on.。