Vetrenica buttercup: description, features, care

A luteum is a common perennial plant. Its small bright flowers appear in the middle of spring.

This plant belongs to the family of buttercups. In the world there are about one and a half hundred varieties of windswepts.

Name

What does this flower owe its unusual name? Perhaps he is too windy?

The petals of the frenzied anemone are really ready to come off and fly away at every slightest blow. For such a feature, the plant also received its first name "anemone". Well, "Luttic" it was called because of belonging to the family.

Scientists call this plant an anemone.

External Features

It can not be said that this plant has outstanding decorative characteristics. But, you see, her flowers, similar to small suns or stars, please the eye and especially effectively look on the background of juicy-green leaves.

An enlarged photo of the frenzied anemone will help to imagine what this plant looks like.

The flower has at least five petals. The leaves are forked and colored green. The stem in height reaches 20 cm.

Varieties

The description of the aureate canopy can be supplemented with a list of several of the most common species. They are similar to each other, but each has its own characteristics.

A noble virgin tree reaches a height of 12 cm. Its leaves begin to grow directly from the root. Above, the leaves are painted dark green, and their underside is burgundy-violet. The plant starts in the winter. His flowers can be white, blue, pink or purple.

The leaves of the Canadian windswept are notched and very severely dissected. The plant blooms in April-May, and the flowering period lasts a whole month.

The Japanese mahr elvenage can be grown at home. In height, the stem can reach 70 cm. Its flowers are not only very beautiful due to graceful petals, they also smell very nice. This variety is characterized by an even longer period of flowering: it can please the owner all summer. The weather changes for this plant are not terrible.

Forest windmill, as you might guess, grows in the forest. This is an early variety, it starts to bloom in April. In height, the plant can reach half a meter.

The rock species can be admired in the south. But in order to find out what an arbutus lycian alpine looks like, you will have to climb the hill by 2000-3000 thousand meters. It is a very beautiful variety with purple flowers that bloom in May. The plant grows nonintensively, occupying an ever larger territory.

Reproduction

Lenticular vetrene is a flower with a long life cycle. Blossoms do not last long, but the plant lives for several decades.

The anemone breeds with rhizomes that constantly branch. Immediately on several sections of the root system new growth centers are formed. Due to such reproduction, forest thickets can be covered with huge thickets of windmills.

Vegetative reproduction and caused a considerable life expectancy. On average, the anemone lives 50 years.

Spread

Lyutichnaya vetrenica is a plant that is thermophilic. It is most common in the southern regions of Russia, but is also found in the middle lane.

Many varieties of anemone, belonging to the family of buttercups, require moist soil. Some species that grow in mountainous areas prefer only hard calcareous soils.

Anemones grow not only in the wild, this plant can become an excellent ornament of the infield or flower bed near the entrance of a multi-storey building. Often an arboreal lychee is planted in urban parks and squares. And also this plant is great for the design of alpine hills.

Self-cultivation and care

Growing anemones is easy. Of course, it all depends on the variety, but there are some general recommendations.

Many gardeners note that the rhizome brought from the forest perfectly feels at the cottage or on the flower bed. It perfectly suits, does not need frequent watering, quickly sprouts. True, the flowers will have to wait a long time, in some cases they can appear no earlier than a decade.

Shade-like species of the windswept are plants that live best in cool places. You can land them in the garden, under the fruit trees. These varieties are usually unpretentious, also considered early.

Application in folk medicine

Since ancient times, the anecdotal lentil was valued among sorcerers. Nowadays this plant is used not only in folk medicine, but also in pharmaceutical production. Some parts of the plant are used to make medicines.

With a curative purpose, dried anemone leaves are used. They have various properties and are used for different purposes.

This plant was used in the Middle Ages to treat asthma and other respiratory diseases. True, for the therapeutic effect, microdoses of the drug were necessary.

The components contained in the leaves can exert an analgesic and hemostatic effect, due to which in the antiquity the plant was often used to heal wounds.

With the help of dried leaves healers and wives treated warts, blisters, abscesses. The infusion, prepared from dried anemones, could be used to reduce headaches and toothaches.

If you, too, are keen on the recipes of traditional medicine and studying the medicinal properties of plants, remember: the leaves of the windswoman contain a dangerous poison anemonol. The use of dried fragments of plants in large doses is dangerous to health.