What is motherwort like

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What is motherwort like? Perhaps people have heard of this plant in their lives, but they don't know much about its specific shape and function. Now from its shape and other aspects, to tell people in detail what kind of motherwort is.

What is motherwort like

The leaf outline of Leonurus heterophyllus is large, the leaf outline of the lower part of the stem is oval, the base is wide wedge-shaped, palmately 3-lobed, the lobes are oblong rhombic to oval, usually 2.5-6 cm long and 1.5-4 cm wide, the lobes are divided again, the upper part is green, there are scabrous hairs, the veins are slightly depressed, the lower part is light green, pubescent and glandular, the veins are prominent, the petiole is slender, 2-3 cm long The middle part of stem is rhombic, smaller, usually divided into 3 or occasionally many oblong linear lobes, base narrowly cuneate, petiole 0.5-2 cm long

In the uppermost part of its inflorescence, bracts can be seen nearly sessile, linear or linear lanceolate, 3-12 cm long, 2-8 mm wide, entire or sparsely dentate. Cymes axillary, 8-15-flowered, globose in outline, 2-2.5 cm in diameter, mostly distantly grouped into long spikes; bracteoles spiny, protruding upward, base slightly curved, shorter than calyx tube, ca. 5 mm long, appressed puberulent; pedicels absent.

The stem of Leonurus heterophyllus is erect, usually 30-120 cm high, obtuse quadrangular, slightly grooved, with retrogressive strigose, especially dense on nodes and edges, sometimes nearly hairless at the base, branched, or fertile twigs only above the middle of the stem

matters needing attention

As for the disease of Leonurus heterophyllus, powdery mildew is the most common disease, which is controlled by 25% rust powder 1000 times before and after the disease. Sclerotinia sclerotiorum can be controlled by spraying 1:500 Ralstonia solani, or 1:1:300 times Bordeaux solution, or spraying 40% Sclerotinia sclerotiorum 500 times solution. And mosaic disease. Aphids, which occur in spring and autumn, are used to control the pests. The tigers are killed in the morning or trapped by grass. Through the above introduction, we should know what kind of motherwort is.