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Hieracium piloselia L. Asteraceae family – Asteraceae, or Compositae – Compositao   What does it look like? A perennial herbaceous plant 50-60 cm (sometimes with a flower arrow) tall. Shoots are formed from the rosette, usually numerous, with increasingly smaller leaves towards the end of the shoot. The leaves of the rosette are green or bluish on top, […]

Perennial herbaceous hairy rhizome plant of the aster family (compound flowers). It has perennial creeping shoots. The flowering stem is unbranched, leafless, 5-30 cm tall. The leaves are in a basal rosette, entire, numerous, obovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, obtuse, narrowed to the base into a petiole, bluish-green above, grayish-felty below. The flowers are all ligulate, bisexual, bright yellow, with 5

Perennial herbaceous plant of the cycad family (orchids). Tubers are kidney-shaped, notched below, covered with short papillae. The stem is simple, thin, ribbed, 10-30 cm tall. 3-4 leaves; of them, 2 are close together, pointed, with several longitudinal veins, connected by transverse veins; upper — 1—2 small leaves, linear-lanceolate, sharp. The flowers are bisexual, irregular, six-parted, pink-lilac, odorless, collected in a

Pharmacy name: Koto bark – Goto cortex (formerly: Cortex Goto). Botanical description: Evergreen tree up to 20 m in height, grows in Brazil and Bolivia. Active ingredients: cotine and its derivatives, alkaloids, tannins, essential oil, resins. Application. The bark of the koto tree is used as a remedy for diarrhea, as well as to reduce the excitability of

field forget-me-not  Few people do not know the forget-me-not — its blue “eyes” welcome us in wet places. In many countries, forget-me-not is a ritual plant, a flower of devotion and sincerity. In Russia, it is a symbol of memory. But the marsh forget-me-not (M. palustris) also has sisters. One of them is a medicinal plant. This is a forget-me-not

\r Perennial or annual herbaceous plant with a creeping rhizome and delicate alternate leaves, pubescent with hairs. Small leaves, moving out of the kidneys, outwardly resemble mouse ears. Grass inflorescences are like curls, and when they open, they look pale blue. The largest flowers are in the marsh forget-me-not, they sometimes grow the size of a fingernail. \r

An annual herbaceous plant from the balsam family with an increased juicy knotted stem and oblong-ovate leaves. Lemon-yellow flowers of irregular shape, with a spur, collected in a brush. Impatiens blooms in July-August. The fruit is an oblong capsule. Grows in damp shady forests and ravines, banks of rivers, streams, cultivated in gardens. Medicinal raw materials are grass,

watercress; the Cabbage family (Brassicaceae), or Cruciferae; watercress is medicinal   It is rare, but sometimes it happens that the Latin name of the plant completely matches the Russian or Ukrainian equivalent. However, it is even rarer that Latin and Ukrainian generic names coincide, and in Russian they mean a completely different plant. In the case of medicinal nasturtium,

Popular names: salad color, capuchins. Parts Used: Whole plant. Pharmacy name: nasturtium herb – Tropaeoli herba (formerly: Herba Tropaeoli). Botanical description.The most characteristic feature of nasturtium is that the plates of its juicy green thyroid-shaped rounded leaves are attached to the petiole in the middle from the underside; such an attachment of the leaf blade to the petiole is

An annual bare plant. The stem is branched, slightly curly, up to 2 m long, in a low variety – up to 30 cm. The leaves are alternate, with long petioles and thyroid plates. The flowers are irregular in shape, orange in color, with blood-red stripes; calyx painted reddish, five-parted, with a spur at the base, with five