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The horned bird is a perennial plant representing the Moth family (Papilionaceae). Other names: sparrow pods, palmate peas, jaundice, Description: Perennial plant with numerous procumbent stems, 15-40 cm long. Leaves pinnate, sessile, with 4 obovate leaflets. The flowers are golden yellow, arranged in the same way as in the whole species of Moths, on short pedicels, 3-5 collected in umbellate […]

LADVENETS HORNED (Lotus corniculatus L.) Herb is a medicinal raw material. The most pronounced medicinal properties are manifested when collecting plants in June, the smallest – in July and especially in September. Air dry in the shade, in well-ventilated areas or in dryers. PHARMACOLOGICAL PROPERTIES The plant has a wound-healing, emollient, analgesic, soothing, restorative and tonic effect. Use

One- or two-year creeping plant with stems up to 1 m long, with trifoliate leaves, equipped with shamrocks, leaflets obovate, finely serrated. Flowers are collected in oblong racemes within 1 cm long, very small, pale yellow; fruits – kidney-shaped one-seeded beans within 2-3 mm long and 1 mm wide, black, bare, yellow or brown seeds. Blooms in May-July.

A perennial plant with a fusiform rhizome, with numerous ascending elevated (up to 80 cm) stems (sometimes recumbent), rather densely dressed trifoliate leaves. Flowers 20-30 in a capitate raceme, small, lemon-yellow, arranged according to the same plan as most legumes; semilunar beans (sickle-shaped), flattened. Blooms all summer. Grows on slopes, upland meadows, along railway embankments, in wastelands. Contains

Sickle alfalfa is a perennial herbaceous plant of the legume family (Fabaceae). Description: A perennial plant with a spindle-shaped rhizome, with numerous ascending elevated (up to 80 cm) stems (sometimes recumbent), rather densely dressed trifoliate leaves. Flowers 20-30 in a capitate raceme, small, lemon-yellow, arranged according to the same plan as hop lucerne (and most legumes); semilunar beans

A perennial herbaceous plant with a rather elevated erect, branched stem upwards, with a short rhizome and numerous roots collected in a dense bunch. The lower leaves are on petioles, expanded into the vagina from below, rounded-pentagonal in shape, 5-7-finger-dissected, the upper ones are sessile, three-dissected. The flowers are golden yellow, on long peduncles. Blooms from May to

Buttercup caustic – herbaceous perennial, representing the Ranunculaceae family Other names: oil flower, burning grass, gouty grass, night blindness Description: A perennial herbaceous plant with a rather elevated erect, branched stem upwards, with a short rhizome and numerous roots collected in a dense bunch. The lower leaves are on petioles, expanded into the vagina from below, rounded-pentagonal in shape,

Poisonous! Ranunculaceae – Ranuneulaceae. Popular names: oil flower, burning grass, gouty grass. Parts Used: The aerial part of the plant (apparently only effective when freshly picked). Pharmacy name: caustic buttercup herb – Ranunculi acris herba (formerly: Herba Ranunculi acris). Botanical description.From a very short thickened rhizome of this perennial plant, erect stems develop, reaching a height of 30-100

A perennial herbaceous plant with oblong-oval tubers of the family of cypresses (orchids). The stem is 30-65 cm tall, upright, ridged, with 1-3 membranous lanceolate sheaths at the base. Basal leaves are elliptic, convergent, obtuse, narrowed into a short petiole; stems – small, lanceolate, sharp. The flowers are irregular, bisexual, greenish-white, odorless, in sparse apical tassels; the lip is linear,

Platanthera bifolia (L.) R i with h. The Ukrainian name is lyubka dvolista, popular names are boyak, starets smolyanny.   Orchid family – Orchidaceae. For therapeutic purposes, dry tubers of love (salep) are used. It occurs in Ukraine mainly in the Carpathians and Polissya, not often in the Forest-Steppe and very rarely in the Steppe (on the second,