I remember when I was in college, a friend liked to look for four-leaf clover in a large field of clover, and it was said that if you found four-leaf clover, you would be lucky, so four-leaf clover is also called "lucky grass".
In the past two years, I have often seen a plant growing on the side of the road, similar to the clover of the past, but I no longer have the feeling of looking for four-leaf clover, but I love a small purple flower that blooms on it.
This plant is called sorrel, a perennial herb in the sorrel family, rich in flower color and morphology.
The character "酢" is a polyphonetic character, with the pronunciation of cù and zuò, and the word "酢" of sorrel grass is related to vinegar, and the "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that it "tastes like vinegar", so named because the juice has a sour taste. It also has many aliases, sour berry grass, acid acid grass, spotted dove acid, trifolic acid, acid mimi, it is estimated to be a veritable acid.
In our country, sorrel grass is more common with small purple flowers, called safflower sorrel. Its flowers and leaves are sensitive to light and close at night and rainy, so it is also known as "nocturnal plum".
Safflower sorrel is also a type of clover, the leaves are composed of three small leaves in the shape of a flat round heart, and occasionally there are mutations, and four small leaves appear, that is, "lucky grass". The petals have five petals, many linear stripes are clearly visible, the color is light purple to purple red, and the flower and fruit period is generally from March to December. When a large field of safflower sorrel grass blooms, the emerald green ground is like a fuchsia gemstone set with stars, which is very beautiful.
Safflower sorrel is native to tropical South America, and is generally farmed as an ornamental plant in northern parts of the Yangtze River in China, while it is mostly wild in the south, commonly found at low altitudes along roadsides, paddy fields, wastelands or mountains.
It likes sunny, warm, humid environment, drought resistance is relatively strong, but not hardy, but hot summer areas are suitable for shady aquaculture. The propagation method is mainly divided plants, and it can also be sown and propagated.
"Chinese Materia Medica" has recorded that safflower sorrel grass can be used as a whole herb into medicine, taste acid, cold, can clear heat and moisture, detoxify, disperse stasis and reduce swelling.
The flower language of safflower sorrel grass is bright heart, wealth and auspiciousness, friendly luck, meaning beautiful, I hope that everyone who sees it can be auspicious and happy forever.