Kulbaba autumn: description and distribution

Kulbaba autumn is a herbaceous perennial plant. It occurs almost everywhere, littering grain crops, orchards and gardens.

Description

This plant is rather tall - up to 60 cm, with an erect or slightly curved stem covered with sparse hairs. Rhizome short, fleshy, develops in the form of a brush with numerous filiform processes.

Leaves linearly oblong form narrowed at the base. In the basal rosette they are usually pressed to the ground or arched up. Single basket on the end of the stem is from 2 to 4 pieces. Wrap on fruits with linear-lanceolate, sharp, short-haired leaves. All hairs are pinnate, rust colored. Dark brown rough seed with a light yellow or dirty white flying is slightly narrowed at the base and at the top.

The first shoots appear in autumn and represent only rosettes of leaves, and the flower-bearing stalks of the kulibaba fall only for the next year of life. Cotyledons oblong, rounded above and slightly enlarged. The first leaves are located near the apex, the edges of them are slightly wavy, the next - take the shape of the notched-toothed. Flowering begins in July and continues until the fall.

Spread

Kulbaba autumn (the family Srednotsvetnye) is considered a weed which drains and drains the soil. It grows almost everywhere. Yellow flowers can be found everywhere: in meadows, fields, pastures, in pens, deposits, sparse forests, near residential complexes, near roads, in gardens and orchards, among shrubs, in intermingle. In crops it is rare and in small quantities. Distributed throughout Europe, Asia, Russia is marked almost by the whole territory, in America, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine and the Caucasus.

Biology

Kulbaba autumn - a honey plant, is well pollinated. To collect pollen, flowers of a plant are readily visited by bees. The daily volume of nectar released is 1.9 mg. Honey production is approximately 100 kg per hectare. This culture overwinteres this culture in the form of small basal rosettes located directly at the surface of the earth. In grassland such grass is eaten by various kinds of cattle. Especially it is observed in the autumn period, when many plants are already absent. Milk from cows as a result of this autumn gets a bitter taste.

Healing properties

The leaves of this culture contain a small amount of vitamin C, alkaloids, carotene, protein. In the seeds of the plant found fatty oil, and in flowers - tocopherol.

Kulbaba autumn is a plant known in folk medicine. With a therapeutic purpose, its terrestrial part is applied: flowers, stems, leaves. Herbal decoction and infusions of them are used in diseases of the gall bladder, with toothache.

Use this plant for treatment should be cautious - it has contraindications. In addition, individual intolerance is possible.

It should be noted that the autumn kul'baba is very similar to dandelion, which is why they are often confused. In fact, it is easy to distinguish these plants according to some external signs and the time of flowering.