"The most beautiful flower of the prairie, the fiery red sarrilang. A dream to the end of the world, everywhere is the fragrance of flowers..." Netizens who often watch douyin, when they hear this lyric, already know that this is a "fiery red sarilang" with a rich grassland style.
The Poet of the Southern Song Dynasty once praised Sarrilang: "There is no fang to find in the spring, and Shandan is the latest to emerge from the cloud forest." "What kind of flower is Sarelang?" Liu Lei, director of the Forage Germplasm Resources Committee of the Chinese Grassland Society and a member of the Red List Professional Committee of the China Wildlife Conservation Association, said that the Shandan flower is the Sarrilang in the mouth of the people in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, its flowers are red, the stems and leaves are small, the white bulbs are like garlic, and the fiery red flower crown is rolled up.
Why is Sarirang widely grown on the grasslands?
Photo by Sarilang Liu Lei
Liu Lei said that sarrilang is widely distributed in Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other regions of China, and belongs to mesophytic plants. It grows in meadow grasslands, mountain meadows and montane forest margins at an altitude of 400 to 2600 meters, and the population of habitats with relatively high humidity is large, and to a certain extent, it belongs to the hidden distribution plant species. Sarrilang has a larger bulb, maintains more growth material energy, and has a certain degree of cold and drought resistance is also the reason for its wide distribution.
Sarirang plays an important role in testing the health of the grasslands. "To a certain extent, sarrilang can serve as an indicator plant for the environment, including the health of the grasslands. In the 1980s, due to human causes and environmental influences, the sarirang population was greatly reduced, and some areas were endangered. There is a variant type of yellow petal in a certain place in northeast China, and due to untimely protection, this type of germplasm resource is difficult to see in the wild. Liu Lei said.
The number of flowers in the sarrilang is related to the time of its growth. Usually, sarirang blooms only one flower in the first year, and one more flower for each additional year thereafter. Usually there are a few flowers, you can know that this sarirang has grown for several years, so it is also called "age flower".
The sarilang that grows on the grassland all year round has also played a role in promoting the economic development of the grassland. Liu Lei said that Sarrilang is helpful for grassland tourism and cultivating flowers.
The sarilang, which is full of mountains, has become a beautiful landscape of the grassland, attracting a large number of tourists to enjoy it. Sarrilang is like a patch of rape flowers in the field, but it grows on the grassland, which is a little more wild. Especially in the spring and summer, when people come to the grassland, people are attracted by the fiery red flowers hanging on the slender branches of Sarilang. When the shandan flowers on the mountain bloom, it also conveys the arrival of summer to people.
Sarirang also has medicinal properties. In the "Compendium of Materia Medica", there is a record of Sarrilang's medicine for the treatment of evil diseases. The use of sarrilang's flower buds can treat trauma and has a good anti-inflammatory and detoxifying effect. Its flowers not only have a cough suppressant effect, but also help to improve the quality of sleep. In addition, sarrilang can also be eaten, which can also improve human immunity while replenishing the trace elements needed by humans.