The Municipal Greening and City Appearance Bureau said that this year is the Year of the Ox, so let's take a look at the plants that contain the word "cow" in the name of Shencheng. According to statistics, there are more than 30 species of "cattle" plants in Shanghai's name, of which 14 are native, 6 are exotic, and more than 10 are cultivated "cattle plants". These "cow plants" not only have wildflowers and wild grasses, but also delicious wild vegetables and wild fruits, so let's take a look at it.↓
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丨 Milk nuts
Deciduous shrub with spines. The leaves are papery, covered with white stellate hairs and a small number of brown scales. The flowers have a fragrance, the corolla is yellow and white, the fruit is nearly spherical, red, and the fruit can be eaten raw, and can also be used as fruit wine and jam.
Shanghai produces Fengxian Nanqiao, Jiading Nanxiang, Jinshan Dajinshan Island, Minhang, Songjiang Sheshan, Xuhui, etc., and is commonly cultivated in botanical gardens.
丨 Cow's knee
It is a perennial herb with a often square stem and knee-like enlargement of the nodes. The spike-like inflorescences are apical and axillary, and the flowers are lanceolate and green.
Roots or whole herbs are used for medicinal purposes and are common in all districts of Shanghai.
丨 Less hairy cow knees
The whole plant has less coat than cow's knee. The spike-like inflorescence is long, the flowers are sparsely arranged, and the discophyte has 3 veins.
It is rare in Shanghai and is produced in Songjiang Sheshan.
丨 Oregano
Perennial herb or semi-shrub with aromatic plants. The base of the rhizome is often woody, quadrangular, often purple, and covered with short soft hairs. The corolla is purple to white.
Whole herbs are medicinal and can be used as ornamental, and common varieties are golden-leaf oregano. It is rare in Shanghai, such as Jiading Outer Port and Jinshan Caojing.
丨 Cowhide elimination
Perennial vines with thick roots. The leaves are heart-shaped, the corolla is white, the radiation is symmetrical, the lobes are folded backwards, and the paracoa is shallow cup-shaped.
The medicinal use of the root, which is very rare in Shanghai, is produced in Fengxian, Jinshan, Qingpu and Songjiang.
丨 Cows flourish
Also known as goose intestine, it is a biennial or perennial herb. The stem is multi-branched. The petals are white, 2 deeply lobed. Green spaces and flower beds in various districts of Shanghai are common.
丨 Cow felt
It has a very slender creeping rhizome, as thin as a hair, dense as cow hair, so it is called cow felt.
Spikelets are ovate, lilac, and the scales wrap the flowers. It grows mostly in paddy fields and ponds, and is rare in Shanghai, producing in Pudong New Area.
丨 Cow tendon grass
The root system is developed and clustered, and the plant is tough like cow tendon, so it is called cow tendon grass.
The leaf sheath is flattened on both sides, and the spike-like inflorescences are 2-7 finger-shaped at the top of the stalk. The whole plant can be used as fodder, and it is also an excellent soil preservation plant, which is common in the countryside of shanghai.
丨 Big bull whip
There are long, transverse rhizomes, the upright parts of the stalks can be up to 1 m high, and the inflorescences are solitary or clustered.
It is mostly born in fields and ditches, and is rare in Shanghai, producing Jiading, Minhang, Songjiang, Xuhui and Yangpu.
丨 Fake verbena
The whisker roots are slender and sparse. The stalks are cylindrical or angular, and the nodes are often knee-curved.
The spike-like inflorescence is cylindrical and slightly flattened. It is very rare in Shanghai, and it is produced by Fengxian.
丨 Oxtail
It is a perennial vine with hollow stems, petioles usually have tendrils below the middle, umbel-shaped inflorescences, and the flowers are patched green. It is rare in Shanghai, producing Songjiang Sheshan.
丨 牻(máng)
It is a perennial herb with a plant height of often over 20 cm. The leaves are ovate, quadratic pinnate deeply lobed, the base is extended downwards, and the near-base pinnae is larger than the mid-upper pinnae.
The umbel-shaped inflorescence is axillary and has 2–5 flowers per stem. It is very rare in Shanghai, and it is produced in Qingpu and other places.
丨 Parsley leaf 牻(máng)
Small annual herb. The leaves are oblong or lanceolate, with small pinnacles near the base, and the umbel-shaped inflorescences are axillary, usually with 2–10 flowers per stem.
It is rare in Shanghai and is produced in Yangpu.
丨 Purple Bull
A creeping rhizome with unbranched stems, erect stems up to 30 cm long. The petals are pink or white, spherical in shape, and turn red to black when ripe.
It is rare in Shanghai, producing Jinshan, Minhang, Songjiang, Jing'an, Putuo and so on.
Source: Municipal Greening and City Appearance Bureau
Editor: Yue'er Xu