#寻找热爱表达的你#地上无闲草, knowledge is a treasure. There is a kind of grass that looks very similar to purslane, and many people have mistaken it, I wonder if you know it? Actually, they are completely different, look at it at my hand, it's called a thousand grasses. Thousand roots grass is an annual herbaceous plant of the Euphorbiaceae family, also known as fine flying, milk grass, fly wings, dysentery grass and so on.
Its root system is very developed, red, and the number of adventitious roots is large, about 10 cm long, so it gets the name of a thousand roots grass; The stem on the ground is very branched from the base, bright red or dark red, the surface is smooth, sparsely pubescent, up to 10-20 cm long, the stem is slender, only 1-2 mm, generally lying flat on the ground and flying in all directions, so it is called "fine flying", there will be milky white juice flowing out after breaking, some people call it "milk grass"; Leaves turquoise or pale green, opposite, elliptic, oblong or obovate, 4-8 mm long, 2-5 mm wide, apex rounded, base oblique, asymmetrical, rounded or nearly heart-shaped, with fine serrations on the edges, often sparsely pubescent on both sides, petioles are extremely short, about 1 mm long, easy to fall off, because it is a bit similar to fly wings, people call "fly wings".
Its flowers are clustered, generally on the axils of the leaves, several clustered around each other, the flowers are very short, and there are thin hairs on them; The flowers bear ovate-triangular capsules, about 1.5 mm long and 1.3-1.5 mm in diameter, pubescent, and the seeds are ovate-quadrangular and dark red. The flowering and fruiting period is from June to November. It can be seen on hillsides, ridges, open spaces, roads, corners, and bushes.
It is non-toxic in its entirety, especially in rural areas, and used to be used to feed pigs. Thousand-root grass is very ordinary, growing close to the ground, and is often found under the feet, but it is still indomitable and tenacious, not to amaze the world, not to please anyone, but to live up to this life, not to come to this world for a while. Do you know a thousand grasses?