Introduction: Similar to water onions, folk commonly known as "single stick grass", appetizing and digesting, there may be children at home who can use it
As we all know, Singles' Day is celebrated every year on November 11, which is an entertaining holiday for young people to celebrate their pride in being single. Nowadays, this festival has become a double 11 shopping carnival, and the annual sales volume is very hot.
Singles' Day everyone knows that there is a kind of weed called "singlesgrass" in the countryside that many people must be very unfamiliar with. Because it has no leaves, only a stem grows upright, like a small stick, so everyone has given it a very image temperament of the name called "single stick grass".
Original image source
In the countryside, there is also a wild grass alias called "Singles' Day", which is a very familiar knotweed, but the stem of the knotweed is section by section, and this singlegrass is upright and smooth, although the alias is the same, it is not the same plant.
In fact, its scientific name is called grass. It is a wet plant in the sedge family, mostly growing in paddy fields, rivers, valley streams, ponds, swamps and other wet and watery places, with strong growth power and strong reproductive ability.
In the past, when every household planted rice fields, this kind of single stick grass was a regular visitor in the paddy field, often grabbing nutrients and affecting the growth of crops, so everyone removed it as a weed.
Singlesgrass looks like a water onion when it is still a young seedling, and they are all plants of the sedge family, so they look very similar. But when the singlesgrass grows and matures, a flower will bloom on the top of the stick, which is a compound spike-like inflorescence and grows very ordinary.
The stem of single stick grass is triangular, so it is also called triangular grass. Its root system is very developed, aquatic plants grow relatively fast, hardy and heat-tolerant, adaptable, as long as there is a single stick grass place, it will appear in pieces.
Original image source
Because its stem is green and the texture is soft, it can be used to feed pigs, sheep, cattle, horses, etc., so it was often used as forage in the past.
When I was a child, when I often herded cattle, I would lead it to a place with bare sticks, which could not only fill my stomach, but also drink water, eat enough to drink enough to soak in the water, and the cow must be very comfortable.
Every plant in nature has its survival value, although this single stick grass is a pest grass in the farmland, but it can be used as a forage grass, because its stem is very soft, after the thick old fiber, in the past can be used to do weaving, such as mats, hats, cushions, etc., is a very good natural fiber raw materials.
In fact, in addition to these effects, single stick grass also has a certain medicinal value, it can be used in the whole herb, with the effect of clearing heat and dampness, appetizing and digesting, and has a certain effect on dietary stagnation, poor stomach absorption, unfavorable urination, hiccup fullness, hot shower, indigestion, and other diseases.
Although the single stick grass seems to have no effect, but some old people are particularly fond of it, every three to five will collect some single stick grass back to boil water porridge for the children to eat, appetizing and digesting, the appetite is good, the child naturally grows fast.
Original image source
However, now everyone's living conditions are getting better and better, and this single stick grass has long been forgotten, and only a few older generations remember it.
However, its shape is peculiar, has a certain ornamental value, so it is often used by some people who love bonsai to make bonsai, which is good to look at and easy to raise, and can also be used in medicine, and ornamental medicine is not wrong.
Friends, do you have this kind of single stick grass in your hometown? It looks like a water onion, the value is very high, but it is a good medicine for appetizing and digesting, if you meet it in your hometown, please cherish it!