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Basically, for collecting, gardeners often choose roses, crocuses and tulips, as well as lumbago.
There is absolutely nothing surprising about this.
Because this touching plant, which is protected by a very velvety and dense edge even on the stipules, has some amazing beauty.
Once appearing in your garden, lumbago will forever capture your hearts and become the main stars of the first half of the season in absolutely any composition.
Touching accents with special status
Gardeners also call lumbago also dream grass, thanks to which all flower lovers do not miss the moment to grow this plant.
Sleeping grass is one of the most vibrant spring flowering crops in gardening, at once hardy and touching.
It is very difficult to grow these flowers, because these plants do not tolerate transplants, and also very much need somewhat specific conditions.
However, such minor difficulties pay off with the irresistible beauty of the blooming of these spring stars, as they are called.
Lumbago is also called Pulsatilla - somewhat earlier it was a separate genus of perennial herbaceous flowers of the Ranunculaceae family.
Judging by the modern classification, species of the highest kind of lumbago are included in the anemone erysipelas, or as it is also called Anemone.
Appearance
Shoots are considered not very large herbaceous perennials. The height of the lumbago ranges from small five centimeters to forty centimeters, but despite all this, their very modest sizes do not prevent them from remaining catchy and bright plants.
Root. Even the rhizomes themselves are special, growing at an angle or vertical, long, deep, powerful taproots of a very unusual large shape for such a small flower.
Escapes in this type, the lumbago is almost always straight, crowned with a flower, emphasized by narrowly dissected leaves fused into a kind of plaid, which repeat the shape of the basal leaves.
Greenery the shoots cannot be called outstanding, however, curtains of different leaves will decorate the compositions until late autumn.
Leaves. The basal leaves in a very compact, but not always dense, rosette sit on long petioles. They are considered pinnately dissected or palmate, as well as densely pubescent.
Fruit. Also, shoots have a distinctive feature, this is elongation, that is, stretching of shoots after flowering, at the simple stage of fruit formation.
Flowers. The pride of absolutely all types and varieties of lumbago are the huge flowers, which are considered the most decorative part of the plant itself.
Flowering process
Flowers generally bloom in most cases before leaves, but in some plants flower stalks and greenery develop almost simultaneously.
The flowers of lumbago are always large; against the background of the greenery itself, they are simply bulky in size. Large bells of incredible shape can reach up to eight centimeters in diameter.
However, they do not always open to their full form; they always bloom one at a time, crowning the flower stalks, so to speak, and sometimes slightly droop and bend over.
A fairly dense bunch of stamens and pistils decorate the middle with a very beautiful eye; in the spring it seems bright, but the main feature of larger flowers is the dense pubescence on the outside of the leaves, which is repeated, and in some cases exceeds the edge of the shoots and leaves.
They are hidden in an incredibly beautiful polyhazel tree with very long fluffy columns. The fruits look as strong as the flowers themselves.
The timing of flowering of plants makes it possible to collect a complete collection of successive perennials in flowering form. Shoots begin to bloom in the month of April, others in May, and other varieties begin to bloom already in the summer.
Also, sleep grass has a kind of relay race, this is the flowering process from mid-spring to the end of summer in August, this is an incredibly beautiful sight.
Despite all the healing properties of lumbago, they are considered a poisonous species, therefore, if used and handled carelessly, sleep-grass when transplanting bases of special protection can damage your skin and cause some irritation or even allergic reactions.
Varieties and types of lumbago
A large number of plants that are included in the sleep-grass genus are considered very valuable plants that have a special degree of protection under the Red Book.
In the wild it is forbidden to dig them up or pick them. Firstly, digging up sleep grass is simply a pointless exercise, because the plant does not have the ability to reproduce vegetatively.
And if you decide to do this, illegal actions entailing criminal and administrative liability, in any case with sleep-grass, means only one thing - this is the extermination of priceless endemic species with your own hands.
Of about forty natural species of sleep grass. Which are common in the Northern Hemisphere, as well as in cold climates, only about fifteen species are used in ornamental gardening.
With all this, it is very difficult to understand the classification of lumbago itself; judging by modern botanical data, sleep grass is considered part of the section of the genus anemone.
A large number of plants that are known to everyone as lumbago also have other names, you just need to replace Pulsatilla on Anemone, you can already get the most modern version of the name for lumbago.
However, such subtleties do not negate the main thing, with all sorts of similarities in any details, absolutely any flower lover will distinguish a simple lumbago from simple garden anemones.
Because plants are also considered special in their character and pubescence. Yes, and mostly lumbago is distributed under the old names.
Let's get acquainted with the most popular and best lumbago, the seeds of which you can see almost everywhere.
Dream-grass (lumbago) common
The most diverse type of grass, if you look from the point of view of varieties of forms. The shoots of this lumbago can grow only no further than twenty centimeters in height, only single, flowers bloom into leaves, made in the shape of bells with very beautiful pointed leaves.
The leaves themselves are cut into very narrow, thread-like lobes, yet the greenery itself seems incredibly thick.
The best forms of this lumbago are:
- Form grandis with incredibly large flowers, about eight centimeters in diameter;
- Another variety amoena with dark, red-violet, large flowers;
- Red-dark atrosanguinea with flowers with a drooping red tint, thin, very beautiful foliage.
Also, the common sleep grass has a large number of varieties with different colors, ranging from white to lilac, red, purple, pink and lilac.
Deserves special attention:
- Mrs van der Elst– a variety with a soft pink tint;
- Papageno Black– is a bright purple variety, reminiscent of Papageno in shape;
- Rothe Glock - Rote Glocke– tulip-shaped variety of red hue;
- Papageno – Papageno– considered a snow-white variety with dissected leaves, large-flowered.
Open lumbago (pulsatilla patens)
A catchy and very bright variety, it is the main competitor of common sleep grass. This plant is plastic, reaches a height of fifty centimeters, starting from seven, and is also plastic in the color of its flowers.
The leaves are palmate, collected mainly in whorls, appear only after the flowering period and captivate everyone with their heart-shaped lobes.
The flowers are very large, capable of reaching eight centimeters in diameter and even more, with bright purple, blue-violet and former shades. The simple shape of a wide bell at the very beginning, then has the peculiarity of being drawn to the star shape of an open cup.
The flowers are in an upright position, that is, everyone will be able to admire them from above and see almost every detail. There is also a certain distinctive feature of this lumbago, which blooms from April to May, is the ability to produce about fifty flowers on one single bush.
The fruits are very unusual, they are screwed or, one might say, buried in the ground, reacting to the level of humidity.
On the territory of the Russian Federation and in nature in general, spring sleep grass is also found ( Pulsatilla vernalis) which is adored by a large number of flower lovers.
This plant can be said to be touching, shining, and is considered by most to be one of the brightest and most delicate spring flowers. Capable of reaching up to thirty centimeters in height, this beauty stands out not only for its slightly curved but also straight shoots.
The basal leathery leaves bloom into flowers, and the four-centimeter, absolutely fully opening bell-shaped cups with a delicate snow-white pearl shade inside and lilac color outside seem to be overturning stars against the background of foliage.
Spring lumbago generally begins to bloom from mid-May, and will delight with flowers for more than twenty days, but when grown from seeds, it blooms only in the fifth or eighth year.
Yellowing lumbago (Pulsatilla flavescens)
It is an incredibly large flower with a rather large and lush rosette of basal leaves that can reach a height of as much as thirty centimeters.
However, the truly luxurious foliage appears after the peduncles, and is also impressive with its large height of fifty centimeters. Erect bells are made very gracefully, in a yellow color closer to a lemon tint, and can reach six centimeters in diameter
Absolutely all plants are covered with an incredible edge with a silvery tint, especially thick on the buds. The multi-cut lumbago is quite similar to this plant ( Pulsatilla multifida) in which the difference is only in the color of the flowers themselves, this lumbago has a bright purple color.
The shot is questionable ( Pulsatilla ambigua) is a very rare type of sleep grass. It is amazing in that the flowers are blue in color, with an ultramarine-saturated tint.
The splayed and elegant bells are only two centimeters long; although they are not large, they are incredibly beautiful, gradually drooping into buds and rising, while opening up.
The basal rosette is very lush, dissected and large leaves form a rosette with a diameter of thirty centimeters, which very well emphasizes the flower stalks of forty to forty-five centimeters that appear at the very end of April.
Haller's shot (pulsatilla hallen)
It is considered a rather charming small flower that can reach a height of thirty centimeters. In Russia, this flower has a different name, namely Crimean lumbago ( Pulsatilla taurica).
This plant blooms mainly for about thirty days, from April to May, while very shaggy flower stalks stand out with bright purple flowers and a lush center with a yellow color, which looks upward, about ten to fifteen centimeters with brightly shaped basal leaves.
Golden lumbago (pulsatilla aurea)
It is a sunny and joyful plant, it looks much larger than its size. The plant reaches approximately thirty-five sizes in height, while it stands out with very bright, densely dissected leaves, with incredible lush edges and very long petioles.
However, the surprisingly dense and bright greenery provides only a background for a flower with a diameter of six centimeters, fully open, with very wide leaves and bright golden colors.
Mostly golden dream grass blooms only in the month of June, as if its flowering indicates the arrival of the summer period. With all this, flowers and greenery open almost at the same time.
Ajan lumbago (pulsatilla ajanensis)
It has the opportunity to boast of its thick and lush foliage than its dwarf friends.
This lumbago with a vertical root, with its insignificant height of five to ten centimeters, has basal pinnate, often trifoliate leaves, which more closely resemble parsley or celery, sitting on very long and almost pubescent petioles.
Peduncles with a very lush edge are decorated with knotty-lanceolate leaves, and large flowers reaching from five to six centimeters in diameter do not fully open.
The egg shape of the leaves, purple color, and red outer edge make this plant one of the most interesting and, not surprisingly, wild in appearance.
If you are looking for a very expressive plant for a natural design, so to speak, then we advise you to turn your attention to this variety Turchaninov's cross(pulsatilla Turczaninovil), narrowly dissected and very bright foliage blooms at the same time with half-opened flowers of a mine-violet color, which seem to float in the air.
One of the most original varieties of sleep grass, without any clarification, is considered lumbago bell-shaped(pulsatilla campanella). In appearance, the flower truly seems very close to the bells themselves; the flowers of the plant are narrow, made in an elongated shape, which look down or are slightly inclined.
Reaching a diameter of about two and a half centimeters, they are considered very effective due to their shape and very light color with a lilac-blue tint. This plant blooms from April to May. The greenery of this lumbago is very bright, and somewhat deeply dissected, on long petioles.
Meadow lumbago (pulsatilla pratensis)
Drooping flowers on peduncles bending in a graceful arc are excellent for this plant. A somewhat muted purple color with a very interesting watercolor transition of tone, which appears after the flowering period, pinnately dissected leaves with a silver tint and a velvet edge makes the flower incredibly touching.
Among this type of sleep grass, the nigricans form with some inky-purple flowers is popular.
Magadan lumbago (pulsatilla magadanensis) is considered one of the lowest lumbago with a rosette of leaves up to five centimeters in height and ten-centimeter peduncles with large pubescent flowers made in the shape of bells with a bluish-white color.
Tarao's lumbago (pulsatilla taraoi)
It is considered a very beautiful plant with large rosettes of leaves. Densely dissected, bright green leaves collected in whorls in rosettes up to twenty-five centimeters in diameter highlight unusual flowers with narrow, only two millimeters wide petals of an unclear brown shade. As they say, this type of lumbago is considered the most exotic.
Tatewaki lumbago (pulsatilla tatewakii)
It is considered an unusual plant. A dwarf up to twenty centimeters high can stand out with very delicate skirt-shaped light lilac flowers with very bright stamens. Leaves are placed on top of it all. This lumbago blooms mainly before the leaves bloom, approximately from April to May.
The last two varieties of lumbago are considered the most high-altitude species, which are second in distribution only to the two favorite mountain sleep-grass.
These include the following:
- Alpine lumbago (pulsatilla alpina)- is a very modest plant, a perennial with white, yellow or cream quivering flowers that bloom from the end of the spring period of May to the end of the summer period of August. It differs from the rest of the sleep-grass in less symmetry of the flower and greater variability in the shape of the leaves. The height of the leaves is limited to ten centimeters, the shoots are limited to twenty centimeters.
- Mountain lumbago (pulsatilla montana)- almost the same as the alpine, but belongs to the high-mountain species. It blooms at the beginning of May, for thirty days it pleases with thick, pubescent, dark purple drooping bells and pinnately dissected velvety basal leaves. The height of this plant is limited to twenty centimeters.
Dream grass has the ability to surprise almost every flower lover with another quality that cannot be taken away from lumbago - it is variability.
This plant undergoes so-called hybridization very easily, that is, new varieties and specimens have the opportunity to appear in your garden.
If you grow several varieties of lumbago, then most likely a miracle will happen, that is, cross-pollination, and in addition to your varieties, you can get other specimens that will have a completely different color and shape.
Therefore, lumbago is very suitable for the collection.
Conclusion: the more sleep grass plants you have in your garden, the more varieties you can discover.
Shots in landscape design
They are used:
- For decorating woody shrubs or simply groups of shrubs along the front edge;
- In collection groups in an open area, a clearing with ground cover, or a lawn;
- As a kind of comic decoration near groups of stones, stairs and boulders;
- For seasonal borders, island flower beds, spring spots;
- As a kind of emphasis on terraced areas, supporting walls, slopes;
- In flower beds with mixborders with backfill and soil mulched with stone chips;
- As accents in the edge of trees;
- And roli is one of the most spectacular plants for rockeries and rock gardens.
The best partners for sleep grass in the garden are: scylla, crocus, primrose.
Growing and care
Conditions for sleep grass
Shoots are quite difficult to grow.
Different varieties and species of this plant are accustomed to incredibly different living conditions, but at the same time retain the ability to perfectly adapt to their changes.
Absolutely all shoots have a common minimum requirement for growing conditions, which should not be violated under any circumstances.
The lumbago will develop only under conditions of good lighting, but not the brightest, but in moderation. Light shading, as well as unstable partial shade or just a sunny area, are equally suitable for the growth of garden lumbago, but usually the most effective rosettes of leaves, as well as the largest flowers, are produced in light shading, which imitates mountainous areas and pine forests.
Absolutely all, without any exception, lumbago feel better on slopes, rather than on smooth and flat areas. In particular, a place with a slope to the South is suitable for sleep grass, as well as artificial hills, for example, alpine hills.
For shooting, you should very carefully select a place in which water, even with the most prolonged precipitation, will drain away from any obstacles without lingering in the soil.
Almost any soil is suitable for lumbago, but the exception is damp soil. The most effective option is to plant sleep grass on fertile soil, where the soil is slightly moist with very good water permeability; in such conditions, the grass will grow incredibly quickly and well.
Drainage is simply vital for sleep grass, because they cannot stand soaking. However, other parameters should also be taken into account.
Empty like lumbago will bloom very strongly only with nutritious soil, which will contain organic matter, which will first have to be processed before planting dream grass. Spring lumbago loves somewhat acidic soil, while all others are at least a little calcareous.
Landing lumbago
Before planting sleep grass, it is necessary to improve the soil. You need to add organic fertilizer, humus, compost and some fertilizer with nitrogen (urea) to the soil. After this, a very thorough digging is carried out.
Because lumbago has an incredibly deep root system, especially tap roots, treatment must be carried out to a sufficiently deep depth. For almost all lumbago, in addition to spring, it is necessary to introduce lime into the soil, or choose alkaline soil.
You can carry out the transfer of sleep grass from the seed beds in early spring. However, you can plant seedlings for permanent residence only from May to the end of the summer period. The best results can be achieved mainly by early planting.
When planting lumbago, you need to completely preserve the earthen ball, and try to reduce contact with the lumbago grass itself to a minimum. It is critically important to provide the plants with very careful care; during the first month, and best of all, before the active phase of development of sleep grass begins, it is necessary to water it very actively, but not to the point of dampness.
Sleep-grass does not tolerate the transplantation process very well. Plants that are more than ten years old most likely simply will not survive a change in site. However, lumbago does not require divisions, nor does it require a constant change of growing location.
If there is a need for propagation or transplantation of sleep grass, the plant is dug up with a clod of earth, while preserving it completely during the procedure.
Watering
The difficulties in growing sleep grass are combined with the ease of its care. There is no special care, and the plant adapts very well to weather vagaries. Watering sleep grass will only be needed during drought, when the temperature threshold exceeds the norm.
On dry and very hot days, they will respond with great gratitude to watering, but the lumbago will not need systematic procedures. Yes, and the plant itself can survive severe drought, but for an effective abundant flowering process it is better to water it.
Fertilizer
Feeding for sleep grass, which grows in any soil, is very important for the flowering itself and the ripening of flower buds.
Organics They are introduced during planting, but also in the autumn as so-called mulch, while providing an annual portion of humus and other natural fertilizers.
And here mineral mixtures It is recommended to apply only during the summer period, using a fertilizing strategy every month, about two or three times is sufficient in the month of May, June and July.
As a fertilizer for lumbago, it is recommended to use only phosphorus and potassium preparations without nitrogen.
Wintering of the lumbago
Only young sleep-grass needs special preparation for the winter period, so to speak.
Before the onset of the very first frosts, at the end of the autumn period, we advise you to cover the plant with dry foliage or spruce branches. Shelter must be provided for young seedlings sown this year.
In the second year, the lumbago is covered if there is a snowless winter. Mature sleep grass overwinters very well without shelter, naturally, provided the soil is chosen correctly and there is no risk of waterlogging during thaws.
Disease and pest control
Very important advantages of sleep grass include resistance to various diseases and pests.
Nature has generously protected sleep grass from such troubles and unfavorable factors.
And if you choose the right place for shooting, and carefully select growing conditions, then the plant will not get sick even with terrible care.
Propagation of sleep grass
Despite the status of a perennial plant, the main method of propagation of sleep grass is considered to be a simple method - it is by seed.
The fact is that sleep grass does not tolerate transplantation very well, and it is simply impossible to separate them in adulthood and then obtain a new plant by vegetative means.
There is also a plus in this, it is the very low efficiency of digging, which allows sleep grass to retain its representation in the wild, because there is simply no point in digging this plant out of its natural habitats.
Sleeping grass blooms no earlier than in the second year after sowing, and other species only after seven years - mainly spring and high-mountain lumbago.
Seminal
The sowing strategy largely depends on the main characteristics of sleep-grass; it does not tolerate any transplants at all, even in a young state, sleep-grass is best sown directly at the place of cultivation or, in another case, on ridges and transported at one year of age with a huge lump of soil.
The timing of sowing sleep grass can be very different. The greatest results will be obtained by sowing the joint after collecting seeds from the plant in June or July.
However, young shoots of sleep grass will require special care from their owners in the hot summer; they will need to be shaded and watered very often. That is why most gardeners choose different dates and sow seeds that were collected last year in the spring in very warm soil.
Winter sowings for simple sleep grass are not very effective. And only high-mountain shoots prefer sowing in autumn and stratification, but it is best to rely on the information of the seed supplier himself.
Sowing in the ground is carried out using a simple technique. That is, the seeds are scattered in small grooves about one centimeter deep with a distance of about twenty centimeters between the rows.
The crops must be dense and the soil simple. Before germination, sleep grasses are provided with light watering without over-watering, maintaining constant soil moisture. Mulching with hay or straw will help stabilize conditions.
Growing seedlings
The method involves sowing sleep grass in April. The seeds should not be deepened, but simply pressed into the substrate, and then moistened on top of the seeds using a spray bottle. The top of the crops must be covered with glass or film.
Sleeping grass seeds can germinate only in light and at a temperature threshold of twenty-four to twenty-seven degrees Celsius. Shoots appear unevenly, but all seeds undergo the process of shedding their shells on their own and in some cases they need to be soaked with warm water to germinate.
Picking is carried out only in individual peat pots in the phase of two to three true leaves. Sleep herbs are transferred to the ground with them, in the month of May or later.
Regardless of the method of cultivation, sleep grass fully exhibits its decorative properties only in the third or fourth year after sowing, however, non-mountain varieties will be able to bloom already in the second year.
Dream-grass, spring beauty.
Mysterious spring flower
Keeps a lot of secrets
But he will tell everything only in a dream...
Among the first spring flowers, this flower stands out for its beauty.
There is a very interesting and mysterious plant in our nature - lumbago sleep grass. When the last winter snow still lies in the forests, unusual flowers appear in places on the thawed ground, similar to small tulips, violet-lilac in color with a yellow center, a fluffy stem and fluffy leaves. Sometimes the flowers are painted in light lilac, yellowish or pink-white tones. Due to its early, almost winter appearance, this flower is also called a snowdrop.
These perennial herbaceous plants of the Buttercup family are common in the Northern Hemisphere and number about 40 species. Some types of lumbago are listed in the Red Book.
Folk legends
Different peoples have beliefs and legends associated with lumbago with grass, which is reflected in the name itself. Once upon a time, when the Devil was still an angel, but had already rebelled against God, he was thrown to earth along with his retinue. From the wrath of the Creator, Satan and the demons hid in the grass, but Archangel Michael sent an arrow. The arrow shot through the grass, the demons, along with the Devil, fell into the underworld. And the flower that the arrow hit received magical properties.
All evil spirits are afraid of him and run away. According to popular belief, arrow helps against the evil eye and damage. If you carry the grass with you, you will protect yourself from evil intrigues and misfortunes. If, when building a house, you place a lumbago at an angle, this will protect the house from thunderstorms and fire, and life in the house will be happy. The plant also helps heal wounds caused by sharp weapons.
The second name of the plant - sleep grass - also has ancient roots. The property of inducing sleep was noted by ancient herbalists and healers, which was reflected in the epics and legends of different peoples. For example, in Scandinavian legends there is a mention that when grass was placed under Brünnhilde’s head, she immediately fell asleep. They say that this flower makes bears drunk in the spring, and having fallen asleep on this grass, a hunter can sleep until the end of spring.
Dream grass, according to folk wisdom, has the ability to predict the future and even fulfill wishes. If you put a dream grass flower, picked early in the morning, under your pillow at night, you will have a prophetic dream. You only need to collect grass in a dream with bright thoughts and think about your cherished dreams, then your wish will come true.
Properties of the plant and use for medicinal purposes
Lumbago sleep grass in raw, freshly picked - poison, A dried - medicine. This property is due to the content of a toxin called protoanemonin in the lumbago. During the drying process, the toxin is destroyed and the toxic properties disappear. Fresh, not dried plants cannot be used for oral administration, as this can lead to severe poisoning and even death.
Fresh lumbago is used in the treatment of the following diseases:
Radiculitis, osteochondrosis, rheumatism, polyarthritis, neuralgic pain. Alcohol infusion (1 hour amount of alcohol: 4 parts of crushed herbs) is used for rubbing.
Fungal diseases and skin lesions caused by Staphylococcus aureus. Use an infusion or extract of fresh leaves. Leaves can be applied to boils, abscesses and pustules.
Infusions or decoctions prepared only from dried raw materials can be taken internally, but very carefully. Shooting helps with the following ailments:
Diseases of the nervous system. Water infusion (1 glass of cold boiled water: 2 tsp of raw material during the day in 5-6 doses) has a good calming effect.
Respiratory tract diseases (whooping cough, asthma, bronchitis, pulmonary tuberculosis), measles, women's diseases. The prepared decoction (1 cup of boiling water: 1 tsp of raw material) is drunk 1 teaspoon every 2-3 hours.
Impotence. Place the picked lumbago flowers in a container of water to take home, prepare a decoction (0.5 liters of water: 10 flowers, bring to a boil, cool and strain), take 30 ml every day. You can make a blank. Take the flowers brought home in water, squeeze them, place the squeezed juice and flowers in a container, pour 0.5 liters of vodka, leave for 7 days, also take 30 ml daily.
The use of lumbago is contraindicated in the following cases: neuritis, gastritis, pregnancy (can cause abortion), liver disease. The medicinal properties of lumbago have been known since ancient times and are still actively used in medicine in different countries and peoples.
How and when to collect arrow sleep grass
The time for collecting and preparing lumbago is the flowering period, mainly before the fruits begin to ripen. In different regions of the Northern Hemisphere, lumbago blooms at different times. In central Russia this usually occurs from the end of April to the second half of May.
They collect not individual parts, but whole plants, with flowers and roots. When collecting and preparing plants, care must be taken - lumbago juice can cause a burn if it comes into contact with the skin.
It is recommended to dry the grass in a shaded, ventilated area. You can prepare juice or extract from fresh plants, in which case it is necessary to use alcohol as a preservative.
Growing lumbago dream grass
Today this plant can mainly be found in forests, steppes, and on hillsides. However, it can also be grown in the garden. You need to know that transplanted plants die soon enough in their new conditions, so growing in the garden must be done from seeds.
For lumbago you need light soil and good drainage. The plant is light-loving, but shade-tolerant. In hot weather, dream grass requires watering. Seeds are sown densely to a depth of 1-1.5 cm in April-early May. The optimal temperature for seed germination is 20-25 °C. Germination time is usually 3-4 weeks.
In the garden, lumbago grass, being a perennial plant, can live in one place for a very long time - dozens of years, delighting the eye with flowers of fabulous beauty that bloom every spring.
Admire the flowering of dream grass in the video:
Ai Rolari
In silence the dream grass blooms,
Shoots break through the ice,
Grows up and down
From the warmth of persistent lips.
The open lumbago, which is popularly called sleep-grass, is a perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Lumbago from At the end of April or the beginning of May, immediately after the snow cover melts, you can see a fabulously beautiful primrose plant. With white, yellow, brown-red and purple petals of delicate flowers, lumbago announces the coming of spring.
Visual appeal
A plant that has flowers with six pointed petals of purple or lilac color is an open lumbago. Its root system is vertical, multi-headed. In the lower part of the stem, basal, pinnately dissected leaves are formed, and thin and long simple stem leaves are fused at their bases. Both are covered with light fluff. Each individual plant produces one large flower at the top of the stem, shaped like an erect or drooping bell.
Description
Wild grass has interesting features - an open lumbago. The description of the species indicates that under favorable conditions it grows up to 25 centimeters in height, growing every year from a powerful dark brown root. Root leaves on long petioles grow after flowering and die off in the fall. The erect stem is also covered with soft fluffy hairs.
Dream grass flowers have numerous yellow stamens and pistils with long fluffy styles up to 5 centimeters in length. The outside of the petals is densely covered with down. Tender heads bloom either before the leaves appear, or simultaneously with them. The spring plant blooms in April and May, forming oblong and heavily hairy fruits at the end of the season, which give the appearance a special decorative appearance.
Spread of the lumbago
Open lumbago - sleep-grass - prefers sod-podzolic soils, characteristic of thinned pine forests, as well as mixed pine-birch and pine-oak forests. Flowers grow on slopes and in thickets of berry bushes, on mosses and grass litter. Glades of lumbago can be found in the meadows and steppes of the European part of Russia, in Siberia and the Far East. In addition, the distribution area of this species is Europe, Asia, and North America.
Types of lumbago
The genus contains approximately 40 different species, native to cold, temperate, subtropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Most (26 species of the genus Postrel) are observed on the territory of the republics of the former Soviet Union, including the open lumbago, which grows in Central and in the south of Western Siberia.
In light pine forests and on the edges there are Turchaninov's lumbago, spring, and meadow. On the high, vast plateaus and peaks of the Crimean mountains, as well as in the cracks of the rocks of the mountain ranges of Central Europe, the Crimean species can be found. Most varieties of sleep grass are listed in the Red Book of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Kazakhstan, and Estonia. These include an open lumbago. The Red Book prohibits the destruction of the population of a rare plant that is in danger of extinction.
The following types of lumbago are known: alpine, ayan, spring, mountain, yellowing, golden, bell-shaped, Crimean, meadow, ordinary and many others. Primary colors: white, yellow, red, blue-violet, lilac.
Favorable for open lumbago
The open lumbago, the photo of which is presented below, has a fairly wide range of distribution. The spring plant feels equally good both in moderately humid climates and in drier places. Delicate purple flowers sprout not only in rich soils, but can also be content with poor, unmoistened ones. They are particularly sensitive to light and especially need sunlight in the spring, during the flowering period.
Botanical description of sleep grass
An open lumbago is suitable for rubbing the squeezed juice of the green on inflamed rheumatic joints. Fresh juice also cures glaucoma. Another species - drooping lumbago, growing in the east of the country - has found its use in Chinese medicine. Decoctions of mature rhizomes are used as a hemostatic and astringent.
Naturally, before taking advantage of the miraculous properties of lumbago, it is necessary to obtain professional advice from a doctor. There are also certain contraindications due to the fact that the plant is poisonous. In particular, in the presence of diseases such as gastritis and other gastrointestinal pathologies, nephritis. The medicinal collection is carried out during the flowering period of the dream grass, which lasts from April to May.
Since all types of lumbago have an incredibly attractive appearance, they look natural in group landscape plantings and will be an excellent decoration for lawns, alpine slides and park areas. And for those who want to dig up a rare and forbidden wild specimen of the open lumbago flower for their garden, it will be useful information that adult lumbago does not tolerate replanting.
In the article we talk about an open lumbago - what it looks like, where it grows. You will learn how to prepare decoctions, infusions and tinctures from it, and how they are beneficial for the body. We give advice on the proper collection and storage of herbs.
Open lumbago or sleep-grass (Latin - Pulsatílla patens) is a perennial herbaceous plant of the Ranunculaceae family.
The name comes from the word “pulzare” - “to push”. Even with a slight wind, the flowers begin to sway, as if someone is pushing them. It received its Russian name because of the shape of the leaves. They seem to have been shot through - cut into many slices.
People have given the plant many other “talking” names: dream book, lumbago-grass, bog lumbago, snow tulip, beaver, cow lumbago, windflower, urchin, arrow, razlapushnik, samsonchik, sheep grass, rumbling.
What does it look like
Appearance (photo) of an open lumbago An open lumbago has a thick or oblique root that goes vertically into the ground.
The stem is short, straight, covered with small hairs. The height of the stems is from 5 to 40 centimeters. During fruiting they become longer.
The size of the leaves does not exceed 3-4 centimeters. The lower leaves, which appear later than the flowers, are located on long petioles and fall off in late autumn. An interesting feature is that the grass has a “blanket” of three leaves fused at the base.
Flowers in the shape of a garden tulip (only smaller in size) bloom in mid-spring. Large, compared to the stem, the bells reach a diameter of 8 centimeters. The petals are colored blue, cyan, violet, with a bright yellow center. Soft hairs give them a soft silvery pubescence. They protect the plant from spring cold and night frosts. The flowering period ends in May.
In the wild, up to 50 flowers appear on one bush.
The fruits are multi-nuts with oblong columns. Each fruit is endowed with a long outgrowth. They are otherwise called “fluffy achenes”. When there are many of them, the head becomes like a mature dandelion.
The lumbago grass reproduces by seeds, which are transported over considerable distances by gusts of wind.
Where does it grow
Places of growth - Central Europe, steppe and forest zones of the European part of Russia, the Urals, Siberia.
Prefers soddy-podzolic soil of meadow steppes, forest-steppe oak forest edges, and clearings of pine-birch forests. Found on dry sandy soils and black soils. Often grows on almost bare limestone in small groups.
Loves sunny places. Does not tolerate much moisture. During the period of spring floods and snow melting, it can simply get wet and die.
The grass is listed in the Red Books of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Estonia, and a large number of constituent entities of the Russian Federation.
Grass
Sleep herb is not recognized by traditional medicine. Traditional treatment specialists have long appreciated the healing properties of the plant and use it to treat many diseases.. To prepare medicines based on lumbago, its stems, leaves, and flowers are used.
The open lumbago (photo below) is a poisonous plant and is not used fresh as a medicinal raw material. Lumbago grass is used for medicinal purposes. Lumbago is a very beautiful and charming flower. Due to its decorative properties, florists collect the plant, like other garden crops. Recently, breeders based on sleep grass have been developing other varieties of flower crops that can decorate any garden.
Chemical composition
The composition of sleep-herb includes:
- anemonin;
- ranunculin;
- protoanemonin;
- essential oil;
- fatty oil;
- tannin;
- vitamin C;
- organic acids;
- flavonoids;
- alkaloids;
- tannins.
Medicinal properties
An open lumbago has the following healing properties:
- hypnotic;
- relaxing;
- sedative;
- pain reliever;
- antispasmodic;
- antimicrobial;
- enveloping;
- anesthetic.
It is recommended for functional disorders of the nervous system, anxiety, neurasthenia, headaches and migraines. Normalizes sleep. The herb also improves the emotional state, improves mood, relieves hysteria, and relieves depressive attacks.
Improves the condition of people with stage 1 and 2 hypertension, stabilizes the heartbeat. The use of lumbago for heart failure complicated by ascites and tachyarrhythmia will also be useful.
Sleep herb has an expectorant effect. In alternative medicine it is used in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, whooping cough, and cough.
Effective for rheumatic pain, radiculitis, polyarthritis, osteochondrosis.
Helps to survive the premenopausal period. Relieves symptoms of PMS. Relieves cramps in the lower abdomen. In the old days, it was given to women to stimulate labor and also relieve pain.
The plant has antitumor properties. It is prescribed to men with benign prostate tumors.
Sleep grass is an excellent antiseptic. It has proven itself in the treatment of boils, eczema, and fungal skin diseases caused by Staphylococcus aureus. Heals wounds and burns.
Used in the fight against sexually transmitted diseases.
How to collect
The plant is collected during the flowering period. When preparing the shot (photo below), do not forget to wear gloves to protect your hands.
For collection, it is better to choose places where medicinal herbs grow intensively. Healing qualities are contained in the above-ground part of the plant. Collected in dry weather, cutting the stems with a knife or uprooting them.
Dry the sleep-grass, laying it out in a thin layer, in the open air, in a shady place.
Raw materials are stored in paper or linen bags for no longer than three years. An important condition is that the room must be well ventilated and cool. When the plant dries, it evaporates toxins that can cause poisoning. Therefore, inhaling sleep-herb vapors is dangerous to health.
It is possible to prepare medicinal products from it only three months after collection. Until this time, toxic substances are still present in the plant.
How to use
Decoctions, infusions and tinctures are made from lumbago. Decoctions, infusions and tinctures are prepared from a well-dried plant. Used externally to heal wounds and for skin diseases. The decoction is drunk for coughs and women's diseases. The tincture is effective as a rub for rheumatism.
Decoction for normalizing sleep
A decoction of open lumbago is used to improve the psycho-emotional state. It is credited with good sedative properties.
Ingredients:
- Open lumbago - 2 teaspoons.
- Water - 200 ml.
How to cook: Pour cold water over the raw materials and boil for 1 minute. Insist for half an hour. Then strain.
How to use: Take 3 times daily immediately after meals. The maximum dosage is 2 tablespoons.
Result: Relieves insomnia.
Infusion for external use
Ingredients:
- Open lumbago - 1 tablespoon.
- Water - 200 ml.
How to cook: Pour boiling water over the crushed dry herb and leave for 12 hours.
How to use: Dip a cotton swab lightly into the infusion and carefully treat the affected areas.
Result: Itching and redness disappear.
This infusion can be added to medicinal baths if you are bothered by joint pain. Sometimes the infusion is used for oral administration. However, this is worth discussing with your doctor.
Tincture for rheumatism
Most often, tinctures based on lumbago (sleep-herbs) are used for rheumatism.
Ingredients:
- Open lumbago - 2 tablespoons.
- Alcohol 40% - 100 ml.
How to cook: Fill dry raw materials with alcohol. Infuse for 7 days in a warm place, avoiding sunlight. Strain.
How to use: Take 2 times a day after meals, 10 drops. Can be diluted a little with water.
Result: Redness and swelling of the joints disappear.
Contraindications
- pregnancy;
- pyelo- and glomerulonephritis;
- gastritis;
- hepatitis.
Classification
Taxonomic position:
- Domain: Eukaryotes.
- Kingdom: Plants.
- Department: Flowers.
- Class: Dicotyledons.
- Family: Ranunculaceae.
- Rod: Shot.
- View: The lumbago is open.
Varieties
There are about 40 species and varieties of lumbago. They are distinguished by color, number and dissection of the petals.
Here are some of the varieties of this plant:
- Common lumbago;
- The lumbago is red;
- The lumbago is yellowing;
- The lumbago is multi-incised;
- Meadow lumbago;
- Mountain lumbago;
- Albanian lumbago;
- Alpine lumbago.
Some types of lumbago in the wild or garden can live up to a hundred years.
To learn how to plant a lumbago, watch the video:
Opened lumbago infographics
Photo of an open lumbago, its beneficial properties and application: Infographics on open lumbago
What to remember
- Absolutely all types of lumbago are poisonous. Be careful not to get the sap of this plant on your skin, which can cause severe irritation and chemical burns.
- Before use, make sure that the raw materials have been stored correctly. When opening the package there should be no foreign odors or impurities of other plants.
- If you decide to take the herbal remedy internally, be sure to consult with your doctor and discuss the required dosage. Sleep herb is a very powerful remedy that, if used unwisely, can cause harm to your body.
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Dream grass is an extraordinary, charming plant that has been valued by people since ancient times not only for its visual attractiveness. The plant can charm with its amazing simplicity and beauty even in the photo, but sleep-grass has a number of useful and medicinal properties. It was believed that sleeping among the lumbago bells helps predict the future, and dried petals of the plant in everyday clothes can attract good luck and happy events in life. This article contains a description of the lumbago and the areas where sleep grass grows. Healing properties and contraindications when using lumbago to treat diseases.
Anemone open: botanical information
These amazing lilac-blue bells with pubescent stems are called sleep-grass or open lumbago. The plant belongs to the Ranunculaceae family, lumbago is listed in the Red Book in the territories of Russia and neighboring countries.
In nature, the growing area of lumbago is quite wide - graceful bells are found not only on our continent; sleep grass can often be found in North America, Central and South Asia. The plant inhabits wastelands, the edges of deciduous forests, prefers sod-podzolic soils, moss, and shrub thickets.
Sleep grass can be found all over the world
Lumbago is a low plant, the maximum height of the stem reaches 15 cm. Very often, decorative bells are used to decorate landscape compositions on alpine hills and rockeries. The plant is a perennial and dies off in the winter.
There are varieties with lilac, blue, purple, white and red flowers. The charming plant blooms for only a short time - amazing bells open their clear eyes in mid-spring (April-May).
The healing power of an open lumbago
Not all types of sleep grass have healing properties. Usually, for the treatment of diseases, raw materials of meadow and open lumbago are used, which equally contain saponins, tannins, camphor compounds, resins, and vitamin C.
Lumbago is used to treat the urinary and respiratory systems; lumbago drugs help suppress pain in the heart, normalize liver function, have a pronounced bactericidal effect, and are used to treat fungal skin diseases. Sleep herbs are used to treat mental disorders and nervous diseases; glaucoma; migraine and a number of other diseases.
The plant is collected only during the flowering period
How to collect lumbago grass correctly
To prepare medicines using herbal raw materials, it is worth using herbs that have been prepared in compliance with the rules for collecting medicinal plants. Harvesting lumbago grass should be started only during the period when the plant is in the flowering period.
Attention! Fresh lumbago juice causes severe burns, so when preparing raw materials it is worth protecting the skin of your hands, for which you need to stock up on durable gloves.
The grass is picked carefully, trying not to damage the perennial rhizome. The leaves and stems of the lumbago are laid out in a thin layer on a clean cotton cloth. The prepared raw materials are dried in the shade, constantly stirring the grass.
Attention! It is not allowed to use freshly harvested dry grass earlier than 3 months after drying.
Dry lumbago herb is stored in canvas or paper bags for no longer than 3 years.
How to properly prepare dosage forms from lumbago
Infusion: take 40 g of dry sleep-herb raw material per glass of boiling water, leave the composition for 40 minutes, then strain the infusion. Used for the treatment of nervous diseases, glaucoma (treatment lasts 2-3 months), hypertension (taking medications for no longer than 2 weeks). The use of the infusion should be distributed between meals 3 to 5 times a day, 1-3 tbsp. spoons at a time.
You can prepare the infusion of lumbago in another way: for 2 tsp. dry herbs, take 1 glass of chilled, pre-boiled water, leave for 12 hours. After filtering, the composition can be taken 50 ml up to 4 times a day.
Collection of dream grass
For external use, prepare a special composition, which is used for lotions: for 1 tbsp. a spoonful of dry lumbago grass, you need to take a glass of boiled water at room temperature. Infuse the composition for about 12 hours, after which the infusion should be strained. Use for external use.
To treat joint pain, prepare an infusion of lumbago with vodka: 10 g of lumbago raw material is poured into 150 g of good vodka. The composition is infused for 5 days in a dark place, then it is filtered. You can rub the sore spots several times a day. Use for external use only.
Therapeutic baths with lumbago: boil 4 tbsp. spoons of dried herb in one liter of water, boil for 3 minutes. Allow to brew, after which the composition is filtered and poured into a bath, which is taken for a maximum of 20 minutes, no more than three times every 7 days. Treatment procedures are carried out up to 14 times in a row, after which it is necessary to take a break.
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