This dreamy little blue flower common in the mountains should not be picked, be careful of poisoning!
【Name】 Engraved leaf viola, poppy family, purple viola genus, annual herbaceous plant. Also known as "broken intestine grass", scorpion flower, "sheep do not eat", "purple flower fish lamp grass" and so on.
【Morphology】As shown in the figure, the stem is branched, and the leaves are pinnate and fully lobed, nearly triangular. Flowering period is from March to April, the inflorescence is indistinct, pink, blue to purple-red, with torches. The mountains are mostly blue, and the plains are mostly pink. Due to the high altitude in the mountains, the flowering period can be postponed to June to July, and the capsules are linear to oblong. It is of the same genus as the Yanhuso family and is very similar.
【Growing environment】It grows in the Qinling Mountains at an altitude of about 400-1200 meters above sea level in the hills, ditches, forest edges, housesides, and prefers warm, shady and humid environments.
[Medicinal] has a big poison, do not take it internally. All herbal use, can clear heat and detoxification, antipruritic, astringent, solid essence, moisturize the lungs, cough.
Have you ever seen it? Next time you go into the mountains, remember not to pick oh!
