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When summer arrives, in the wet and shady places of the countryside such as fields, roadsides, hillsides, houses, and rivers, you will often see a small weed with green leaves like bamboo leaves and dark blue flowers like butterflies, which is very beautiful.
It's plantagenet.
The name is Super Earth. But it has aliases but it sounds good: green bamboo, emerald butterfly, light bamboo leaves, orchid grass, bamboo leaf grass.
It is an annual patch of loose grass. It is mainly distributed in tropical areas, but also in subtropical and temperate zones.
Throughout its life, we humans have two extremes in dealing with it.
On the one hand, it's weeds.
This grass is not at all conspicuous when it does not flower, and people turn a blind eye. In terms of use, it is also used as pig grass and fed to pigs. To put it bluntly, it is a weed that can be uprooted and trampled at will.
On the one hand, it's the Smurfs again.
The flowers are super beautiful. Polyflorescence apical or axillary. The upper two petals are blue, and the lower one is white, really like a dancing butterfly.
The leaves are emerald green. It's green all year round. Like bamboo leaves. The blades are also not large.
The functionality is superb. It is a traditional Chinese medicine, swelling and diuresis, heat and detoxification. In the past, it was pig food, but now it is a health dish. High nutritional value. It can be mixed cold, stir-fried, and can also be made into tea.
Spicy and nourishing. Drought-tolerant, the soil requirements are not strict, and the whole sun can be half shade. It can grow if it is a little wet on the soil.