Wildflowers of the Kuban. Wildflower Description - Wildflowers Names

Acanthus(Acanthus, Branca ursina, Bear Paw, Bear Claws, Holly) inspires creativity. decorative, garden plants suitable for making freshly cut and dry bouquets, it is appropriate in a man's bouquet. Many creative personalities inspired by seeing this flower.

Aconite, Wrestler (Aconitum) - According to legend, Aconite grew out of the spilled blood of the three-headed guardian of the underworld Cerberus, captured and led out of the kingdom of Hades by Hercules. Aconite is given as a sign of sympathy and friendship. This flower is suitable for men and women, for colleagues and business partners. Despite the beauty of the flower, aconite is very poisonous and you should be careful with the bouquet and possibly with the person who gave it. In ancient Greece and Rome, aconite poisoned those sentenced to death. There is a hypothesis according to which Tamerlane was poisoned with Aconite.

alpine rose, Mountain dope (Rhododendron) - "Be careful." The shortest and highest mountain rhododendrons.

alpine star, Edelweiss (Leontopodium) - is the flower of Happiness, Love and Courage. Only sincerely loving hearts of the mountains are allowed to pick edelweiss with impunity.

Amaranth- a symbol of immortality, faith, fidelity, constancy in love.

Pansies , Violet tricolor, Ivan da Marya (Viola tricolor) - “All my thoughts are about you”, I miss you, fun, entertainment. The shape and color of the flower resembles a little man. In French, the name of this flower is Pensée and is translated as thoughts, thoughts. In Russia, it was believed that pansies were not for the living, and it was not customary to plant them in the garden. In England, it was believed that if you pick these flowers on a clear day, then it will certainly rain (although rain is not uncommon there).

Asparagus, Asparagus (Asparagus) - in the language of flowers symbolizes gullibility and innocence. Asparagus has decorative leaves thanks to which sprigs of asparagus are added to bouquets and compositions.

Artemisia, Wormwood, grass of witches (Artemisia) - feminine, dignity. It was believed that wormwood protects from witches and mermaids, expels all evil spirits from the house. However, magicians use the smoke of wormwood to communicate with otherworldly entities.

Asphodelus, Asphodelus, Asphodel (Asphodelus) - is a symbol of oblivion, death, mourning, sorrow and the afterlife. It was also believed that Asphodel could expel evil spirits from dwellings.

Basil(Ocimum basilicum) - disgust, hatred. Basil is presented as a gift, to put it mildly, to a person unpleasant to you, if for some reason you cannot speak or remain silent. Hindus believe that basil helps the departed to get to a better place after death. Basil was often used in magic and alchemy.

periwinkle(Vinca) - symbolizes the happiness and consent of the young spouses, excites passion. The periwinkle is also a symbol of vitality. If you put a periwinkle in a bouquet of flowers, you will achieve love. Periwinkle helps to keep love in the family, makes the marriage strong, expels evil spirits from the home.

cornflower, Cornflowers (Centaurea) - “I don’t dare to express my feelings to you”, delicacy, grace, simplicity, and also - gaiety and fidelity, in some nations - hatred. It is customary to give cornflowers to young girls, preferably blondes, as a sign of sympathy. Give this flower if you want to offer just friendship for now. The name of the flower comes from the mythical Centaur Chiron, who knew the medicinal properties of all plants. In Christianity, cornflowers indicated the hiding place of the cross on which Christ was crucified.

lady's slipper(Cypripedium calceolus) - capriciousness, inconstancy. The slipper giving a lady's slipper says that you are a capricious, windy person and he accepts you like that but is full of readiness to tame. The lady's slipper is listed in the Red Books of Europe and Russia.

Verbena, pigeon grass, iron grass (Verbena) - sensitivity. Like the herb of love, verbena helps against anger, extinguishes emotions, and puts you in a cheerful frame of mind. It was believed that vervain attracts wealth and is able to fulfill any desire, for which it is enough to rub it, and was used to cleanse the home.

Heather, Heather (Calluna vulgaris) - protection, wishes come true.

Bindweed(Convolvulus) - beauty, pomposity. The bindweed giver invites you to spend this wonderful evening with him, nothing more.

catchment(Aquilegia) - a symbol of healing from greed (greed) and quarrelsomeness, in Christianity a symbol of the holy spirit. Among different peoples, the catchment flower was associated with an angel, a dove, or an elf shoe.

Hyacinth(Hyacinthus) - purposefulness, games and sports. Blue hyacinth - consistency, integrity; purple - farewell, sadness; red and pink - game; white - "I will pray for you, beauty"; yellow - "I'm jealous." From the program "Blind" - "Get a bouquet of hyacinths to a big deception", in that case there was a blue hyacinth. According to some reports, the smell of hyacinth stimulates positive emotions, relieves stress and increases efficiency.

gypsophila, Kachim (Gypsophila) - caution, shyness. In a mixed bouquet or in a composition, the meaning of Kachima is lost.

Elecampane, Devyatisil (Inula) - mutual love, strength, sacrifice, health. It was believed that elecampane attracts grooms to the house. Among the Slavs, elecampane has nine super powers and cures nine diseases, in China they talk about 99 diseases.

Delphinium, Larkspur (Delphinium) - modesty, sadness, unpretentiousness. Pink delphinium - inconstancy. All parts of the plant are poisonous.

Sweet pea (Lathyrus odoratus) - "Goodbye", farewell, thank you for a great time.

Oregano, Oregano (Origanum) - joy, significance. Zeus got his strength from the milk of a goat that ate oregano.

Angelica, Angelica (Angelica) - inspiration. Grass Angel.

St. John's wort(Hypericum) - hostility. It pacifies the beast in a person, heals, brings happiness, courage, love, protection and good luck.

strawberries(Fragaria) - perfect superiority, a hint, "Pay attention: your happiness is near!". A symbol of prosperity and abundance.

goldenrod(Solidago) - success, "Appreciate any luck."

Iris, Kasatik (Iris) - friendship, wisdom, trust, faith, hope, fearlessness, eloquence, sadness. The Japanese character for "warrior spirit" is written in the same way as Iris. Iris was often used in the symbolism of different peoples, including the Slavs.

reeds(Scirpus) - obedience.

Clover(Trifolium) - "I would like to know ...", expectation, fertility, housekeeping, a symbol of good luck. White clover - "Think of me." Four leaf clover - good luck and fulfillment of the desired.

Bell(Campanula) - humility, humility, constancy; talkativeness; "Why are you torturing me with whims?"

Coreopsis, Lenok, or Parisian beauty (Coreopsis) - cheerfulness, fun, optimism. “Everything will be fine!”, “The best is ahead!”.

Mullein(Verbascum) - good nature.

Nettle(Urtica) - slander, hostility.

Crocus(Crocus) - fun, freshness, joy, cheerfulness, rebirth, affection. Yellow Crocus - "Are your feelings true?"; purple - "Are you sorry that you fell in love with me?".

Lily of the valley(Convallaria) - reliability, reliability.

Linen(Linum) - a family symbol, household chores, fate, stability, constancy.

burdock, Burdock (Arctium) - importunity and boredom.

Buttercup(Ranunculus) - childishness, wealth.

Lyadvenets(Lotus) - revenge.

Poppy(Papaver) - eternal sleep, oblivion, imagination, reverie, youth, sociability, desire for pleasure. Red poppy - pleasure; white - consolation; yellow - wealth, success.

Coltsfoot(Tussilago) - maternal love and care; proven justice.

Moss(Department: Bryophytes - Bryophyta) - maternal love, mercy.

Mint(Mentha) - chastity. Peppermint - warm feelings.

forget-me-not(Myosotis) - memories, true love, sincerity, constancy, fidelity.

Dandelion(Taraxacum) - happiness, fidelity, devotion. The person who gives a dandelion is cheerful and sociable, a little frivolous. For you, such a gift means: “Do not be sad”, “I am glad that we are together now”, “I want to stop this moment”.

Holly, Holly (Ilex) - family happiness, protection, hope, deity.

Fern(Department: Ferns - Polypodiophyta) - charm, magic, grace, trust and patronage. Fern will emphasize female magic and mystery.

Peony(Paeonia) - a happy wedding, a cheerful life, compassion, shyness.

Ivy(Hedera) - harmonious love, fidelity, friendship, affection, desire to please.

(Tanacetum) - hostility.

Most best view recreation is a walk in nature. Nothing gives such a charge of energy, a surge of vivacity and strength, as a hike in the forest, rest in a meadow or on the shore of a lake. In summer, forest glades are dotted with many modest wildflowers. They fill the air with wonderful aromas and delight the eye with a variety of colors. It is surprisingly pleasant to be in nature, to collect beautiful bouquets, to weave wreaths of grass.

Among the wildflowers exist a large number of healing, the so-called medicinal herbs. Therefore, outdoor recreation can be combined with a useful thing - the collection of medicinal plants and provide yourself and your family with herbal teas for the whole winter, which can be used not only for treatment, but for the prevention of various diseases.

Of course, you can’t collect everything in a row, despite the beauty, some field plants and wild flowers can be poisonous. Therefore, you need to be able to distinguish useful plants from those that can be harmful.

healing plants

Names of wild flowers and herbs most popular, wild plants, which can be found in almost any clearing in the forest:

Dandelion

wild, perennial, medicinal plant. Dandelion grows to a height of up to thirty centimeters, dandelion leaves are oblong, incised and collected in a rosette. The bright yellow flower grows on a single peduncle. At the break of the plant, a milky juice appears, which tastes bitter. These beautiful wild flowers can be used both as a medicinal plant and as a plant that is excellent for food. Dandelion leaves can be put in a salad, and jam can be made from the flowers.

Dandelion Salad:

• Dandelion leaves.
• Cucumber.
• Green onion.
• Mayonnaise.

Cut all the ingredients, salt, pepper and season with mayonnaise.

Before adding the leaves to the salad, they must be soaked for half an hour in cold, salty water or scalded with boiling water to get rid of the bitterness of the milky juice.

Dandelion jam:

• Dandelion flowers - 300 pieces.
• Sugar - 1 kilogram.
• Water - 2 glasses
• Lemon - 1 piece

First you need to boil the syrup from water and sugar, then lower the cooked, washed, peeled flowers into it. After the jam boils, cook for twenty minutes, five minutes before the readiness to squeeze the juice of one lemon into the jam. Leave the jam to infuse for one day. Then strain the jam through cheesecloth, squeeze out the flowers and boil the resulting syrup for 20 minutes. The jam is ready.

For medicinal purposes dandelion is used for such diseases, as:

Coltsfoot

The leaves of this plant are used to treat coughs.. If we translate the name of the mother-and-stepmother from Latin into Russian, then it is called that - banishing cough.

The plant is characteristic in that at the beginning of spring, yellow flowers appear first at the coltsfoot, and only then do the leaves begin to grow. The leaves of the heart-shaped plant are smooth on top and have a margin on the bottom. Harvesting of medicinal raw materials is carried out in the spring and the leaves are dried in the open air.

St. John's wort

This plant is used as an antidepressant.. St. John's wort can cause dullness of consciousness and dizziness in some animals. A very useful plant for honey bees, which in the morning collect a large amount of pollen from St. John's wort.

Usually St. John's wort is perennial, shrub or shrub. St. John's wort can also be a herbaceous, annual plant. The flowers are small, yellow with five petals. The leaves are small, smooth at the edges, usually opposite.

Snapdragon

The herb is used in folk medicine in diseases of the liver, jaundice, dropsy, headaches and shortness of breath.

Blossom Snapdragon starts in June and blooms until frost. Flowers can be yellow, white, pink. Snapdragons can also have bicolor flowers. The flowers themselves are irregularly shaped, two-lipped, large, can be simple and double.

This is a herbaceous or bushy perennial plant, from fifteen to one hundred centimeters high.

Clover

Such a flower as clover has found its application not only in traditional medicine, but also in cosmetology. Clover is an ingredient in some hair beauty shampoos., and you can also prepare a decoction of clover flowers and use it for taking baths when skin diseases.

In medicine, meadow clover is used as an astringent, hemostatic, expectorant. Decoctions of clover can be used as a diuretic and diaphoretic.

In appearance, it has small flowers of pink, white or red. Clover leaves are collected in the form of a shamrock. By popular belief If you find a clover with four leaves, then it will bring good luck.

Plantain

Absolutely all people know from childhood that a clean, crushed plantain leaf should be applied to a scratch. And this is true, because plantain has wound healing, hemostatic and anti-inflammatory action.

The appearance of the plantain is very modest. Broad leaves are collected in a basal rosette, peduncles are tall, bare, with small flowers.

poisonous plants

A lot of wildflowers grow in the meadow, among which you can find not only useful or at least harmless plants, but also poisonous, life-threatening. Therefore, when collecting wild flowers, one must remember the rule "unsure - do not take."

Dangerous, poisonous field plants

When walking through the forest and forest glades, one must remember that not all plants are as harmless as they look, although they are beautiful. Even if you do not harvest plants - healers, but simply collect a bouquet of wild flowers, you need to know what this or that flower looks like. To do this, you need to study photos with the image of flowers, consider pictures. It is good to purchase a guide that contains a detailed description of wild plants and there are photographs of flowers.

Bushy perennial plant up to 2 meters tall. The leaves are rounded, five-dissected, dark green. The flowers are dark purple large, five-leaved, corolla up to 8 cm in diameter. There are many flowers on the shoots. Frost resistant plant. It is used in folk medicine.

Marshmallow officinalis

Herbaceous perennial plant up to 50 cm in height. The leaves are oblong, pointed, located along the entire stem (large below, small above), bluish-green in color. The flowers are solitary, concentrated at the top of the stem, pale pink in color, up to 10 centimeters in diameter. The plant does not withstand severe frosts. Feels good in the suburbs. Widely used in medicine.

Amaranth spiky

Herbaceous plant up to 1 meter in height. The leaves are alternate, oblong, shallower towards the top of the stem. The flowers are small, yellowish-green, collected in dense spike-shaped inflorescences. It grows in fields and meadows throughout Russia and Ukraine. The plant is unpretentious to climatic conditions. Applied in Food Industry and medicine.

Pansies

Herbaceous perennial plant up to 40 centimeters in height. The leaves are alternate, bare petiolate, shallower towards the top of the stem. The flowers are large, tricolor, tetrahedral up to 6 centimeters in diameter, on thin pedicels. Frost resistant plant. Grows everywhere. Used in medicine.

wild rosemary

Bush perennial plant up to 2 meters in height. The leaves are small, located along the entire stem, bluish-green in color. The flowers are four-leaved, crimson in color with a bright intoxicating aroma, up to 4 centimeters in diameter. There are many flowers on the pedicel, they are collected in umbrellas. Grows everywhere. It is used in cosmetology and medicine.

Lily-leaved bell

Herbaceous perennial plant of the Bellflower family up to 1.5 meters in height. The leaves are narrow, dark green, sparse. The flowers are small, arranged in a row along the entire upper part of the stem, gently purple. The plant is widespread in Siberia, it also grows in Ukraine. Used in medicine.

Valerian officinalis

Herbaceous perennial plant up to 1.5 meters in height. The leaves are upper and lower, long-petiolate, the main stem is slightly leafy. The flowers are pale pink, fragrant, small up to 5 millimeters in diameter, collected in umbrellas. Grows everywhere. Widely used in medicine and cosmetology.

Cornflower meadow

Herbaceous perennial weed plant up to 1 meter in height. The leaves are oval-elongated, pubescent, bluish-green. The flowers are pale pink, up to 5 centimeters in diameter, in the inflorescence form a basket. Grows everywhere. It is widely used in traditional and folk medicine.

Cornflower blue

Herbaceous perennial meadow plant up to 1 meter in height. The leaves are pubescent, lanceolate, oval-elongated, bluish-green. The flowers are bright or dark blue, up to 5 centimeters in diameter, in the inflorescence a basket. Grows everywhere. It is used in medicine and cosmetology.

forest anemone

Herbaceous perennial plant up to 20 centimeters in height. The leaves are carved, dark green, located in the root zone of the plant. The flowers are large, white with a pronounced smell of honey. Blooms in warm regions of Russia and Ukraine. Rare protected plant.

Vyazel mouse peas

Herbaceous perennial plant up to 1.5 meters in height. Stem branched, creeping. The leaves are small, complex, ash-green. The flowers are small, purple in color, collected in a corolla. Very popular in the vicinity of Novosibirsk. It is used in folk medicine.

herbaceous perennial dicotyledonous plant up to 40 centimeters in height. Leaves linear, pubescent. The flowers are red, pink, rarely white with five toothed petals. A rare meadow plant protected in the Saratov region.

Geranium meadow

Herbaceous perennial dicotyledonous plant up to 80 centimeters in height. Stem leaves five-parted, upper sessile three-parted. Flowers large, widely open, numerous, lilac color with five petals. Grows everywhere. Used as a raw material in medicine.

Highlander snake

Herbaceous perennial plant with a non-branched single stem up to 1 meter high. The leaves are basal, long, feather-shaped. The inflorescence is spike-shaped, dense, with a large number of small pink flowers. Frost-resistant plant of the regions of Western Siberia. Widely used in medicine and cosmetology.

Highlander pepper

Herbaceous perennial plant of the Buckwheat family. Reaches a height of up to 90 centimeters. The stem is thin, branched, erect. The leaves are feather-shaped, located along the entire stem. The flowers are small, white, collected in spike-shaped brushes. It is widely used in the food industry, traditional and folk medicine.

Highlander bird

Herbaceous plant up to 50 centimeters in height. Stems branched, weaving, creeping. The leaves are small, dark green, arranged symmetrically along the entire stem. The flowers are small, white, randomly distributed throughout the stem of the plant. Grows everywhere. Used in medicine. Used as a fodder plant.

Gentian

Perennial shrub up to 1.5 meters in height. Stems dense, short, straight. The leaves are thin, long, dark green in color, arranged symmetrically along the entire stem. Flowers large, solitary, bell-shaped. The flowers are blue, blue or purple. Grows everywhere. It is widely used in folk and traditional medicine.

Adonis cuckoo

Herbaceous perennial plant with a straight stem up to 90 centimeters in height. The leaves are lanceolate, arranged symmetrically from top to bottom along the stem. The flowers are pink, collected in a corymbose panicle and concentrated in the upper part of the plant. It grows in most regions of Russia and throughout Ukraine. It is widely used in folk and traditional medicine.

Wintergreen

Herbaceous perennial plant up to 40 centimeters in height. The leaves are large, dark green, rounded ovate, serrated. The flowers are small, white-pink in color, collected in straight racemose inflorescences. Frost-resistant plant of the Caucasus, Siberia and the Far East. Medicinal plant used in medicine.

goose bow

Herbaceous perennial lily bulbous undersized plant up to 15 centimeters in height. The leaves are long, growing in the root zone as a separate parost. The flowers are small, bright yellow with a pronounced honey smell. Heat loving plant. It is used in cosmetology and traditional medicine.

Elecampane

Bush perennial plant up to 1 meter in height. The leaves are entire, narrow, light green in color. Flowers orange or yellow. They can be both single and collected in corymbose brushes. Grows everywhere. It is used in cosmetology, traditional and folk medicine.

Delphinium

Bush perennial plant up to 1.5 meters in height. The leaves are arrow-shaped, collected in the basal zone. The flowers are small, collected in a pyramidal inflorescence located on a long peduncle. Flowers can be white, pink, blue, lilac, red, pink, yellow. Grows in warm climates. The plant is used in soap making.

wild bow

Bush perennial plant up to 50 centimeters in height. The leaves are arrow-shaped, like a feather of an onion, but a little thinner. A long thin pedicel on which is located a single, bell-shaped, pink flower. Grows everywhere. Used in the food industry.

sweet clover

Herbaceous perennial plant up to 2 meters in height. The leaves are three-leaved, symmetrically arranged along the entire stem. The flowers are small, yellow or white, collected in racemose inflorescences up to 7 centimeters long. Grows everywhere. Widely used in traditional and folk medicine.

Larkspur field

grassy annual plant buttercup family up to 50 centimeters in height. Self-sowing. The stem is branched and erect. The leaves are small, pinnate, openwork, alternate. The flowers are small, outwardly similar to a small hatchet. Flowers can be blue, purple, rarely pink. Grows everywhere. The plant is poisonous, it is forbidden to use in its pure form.

St. John's wort

Herbaceous perennial plant up to 80 centimeters in height. The stem is erect, with a large number of symmetrical leaves. The leaves are elliptical dark green. The flowers are collected in corymbose inflorescences. The flowers are bright yellow. It grows throughout Russia and Ukraine. Medicinal plant, widely used in medicine.

strawberries

Herbaceous perennial plant up to 30 centimeters in height. trifoliate leaves, complex shape on single stems. Shoots creeping and rooting. Inflorescences in the form of a multi-flowered corymb. The flowers are small, white, with a bright aroma. It grows in warm regions of Russia. It is used in the food industry, cosmetology, medicine.

golden rod

Herbaceous perennial plant up to 1 meter in height. Stem erect, unbranched. The leaves are oblong, sharp, with serrated edges. The flowers are yellow, small, collected in a panicle inflorescence. It grows in the Caucasus, Western Siberia, Ukraine. It is used in medicine and in everyday life.

centaury

Herbaceous biennial plant up to 50 centimeters in height. Self-sowing. Stem solitary, erect. The leaves are oblong, pale green. There are very few leaves on the plant. The flowers are small, pink, collected in an umbrella inflorescence. Grows everywhere. Used in cosmetology and medicine.

Zopnik

Perennial shrub with oval whole leaves and zygomorphic flowers collected in whorls on the upper part of the stem. The shrub reaches 1.5 meters in height. Flowers can be white, yellow or pink. Grows everywhere. Widely used in traditional medicine.

Iris

Perennial rhizomatous plant up to 60 centimeters in height. The stem may be single or tufted. The leaves are flat, xiphoid, collected at the base of the stem. Flowers solitary or three in an inflorescence. Flowers can be yellow, purple, white. purple, burgundy, pink. The flowers are similar in appearance to an orchid flower. Grows everywhere. It is used in folk medicine.

Fireweed narrow-leaved (Ivan tea)

Herbaceous perennial plant 50-150 centimeters in height. Stem erect, glabrous, rounded, densely leafy. The leaves are simple, linear-lanceolate, pointed, narrowed, dark green shiny color. Flowers with double perianth, pink, four-membered, bisexual up to 3 cm in diameter. The flowers are collected in a rare apical raceme up to 45 centimeters long. Grows everywhere. An ornamental plant used in folk and traditional medicine.

Kirkazon clematis

Herbaceous perennial liana 50-90 centimeters high with a creeping rhizome. The stem is simple, erect. The leaves are heart-shaped, up to 10 centimeters long. Flowers with zygomorphic perianth, light yellow. It grows in the European part of Russia and the Caucasus. Poisonous medicinal plant. It is used in small doses in traditional medicine.

plowed clover

Herbaceous annual plant up to 30 centimeters in height. Self-sowing. Stem straight, branched. The leaves are trifoliate, linear-oblong, blue-green. Inflorescences-heads of a cylindrical shape, hairy-hairy. Flowers in the form of a small pale pink corolla. Grows everywhere. Used in cosmetology and medicine. Forage plant.

Creeping white clover

Herbaceous perennial branching plant up to 30 centimeters in height. Stem creeping, branched, glabrous, self-rooting. The leaves are trifoliate on long petioles. The leaves are painted green, with white stains inside the leaf. Inflorescences-heads of spherical shape. Flowers in the form of a small white corolla. Grows in temperate zones. It is used as an excellent honey plant, fodder plant, soil improving plant.

clover pink

Herbaceous perennial plant up to 80 centimeters in height. Stem tubular, branched, erect. Leaves are oval, trifoliate. Inflorescences-heads are spherical. The flowers are in the form of corollas, pink or crimson. Grows everywhere. It is used as an excellent honey plant, fodder plant, component in folk medicine.

feather grass

Sod-like perennial plant up to 1 meter in height. Stems erect, glabrous. The leaves are linear, narrow, located in the root zone of the bush. Inflorescence in the form of a narrow compressed, pubescent panicle up to 25 centimeters in length. Grows everywhere. Decorative plant.

meadow goatbeard

Herbaceous biennial plant up to 1 meter in height. Self-sowing. Stem thin, erect, purple tint. The leaves are narrow, long, located in the lower knee of the stem. The flowers are yellow, dandelion-shaped on a flower stem-basket. Grows everywhere. Used in the food industry.

bluebell

Herbaceous biennial plant up to 70 centimeters in height. Self-sowing. The stem is erect, thin, slightly leafy. The leaves are small, entire, alternately arranged. The corolla is bell-shaped. The flowers are purple, collected in a racemose or paniculate inflorescence. Grows in temperate climates. rare ornamental plant.

Field barnacle

Herbaceous perennial plant up to 80 centimeters in height. Stem erect, slightly leafy. The leaves are hairy, lanceolate, pinnate, located in the root zone of the plant. Inflorescence-heads up to 3 centimeters in height. The flowers are bluish-purple with lanceolate leaflets-wrappers. Grows everywhere. Used as an excellent honey plant.

Burnet officinalis

Herbaceous perennial plant up to 90 centimeters in height. Stem solitary, erect, branched at the top. The leaves are long-petiolate with a large number of small oval leaflets. The edge of the sheet is cut. The flowers are small, dark red, collected in oval corollas-heads. Medicinal plant, fodder plant, honey plant. Grows everywhere. Used in folk and traditional medicine.

European bathing suit

Herbaceous perennial plant 40-100 centimeters in height. Leaves are basal and stem. The leaves are dark green, pinnately dissected, collected in a rosette. The flowers are rich yellow, large, up to 5 centimeters in diameter, with a bright aroma. The flower looks like a small peony. A rare plant protected by the Republic of Belarus, the Tambov region and Poland.

Kupena fragrant

Herbaceous perennial plant 30-65 centimeters in height. Stem glabrous, faceted, erect. The stem, under the weight of leaves and flowers, forms an arc. The leaves are oval, amplexicaul, alternate, glossy and green above, dull and gray below. The flowers are white, small, arranged along the stem. The flowers are similar in appearance to a bell. Grows everywhere. A poisonous plant used in small doses in folk and traditional medicine.

Lily of the valley

Herbaceous perennial plant of the genus Liliaceae up to 40 centimeters in height. The stem is thin, glabrous, erect. The leaves are large, oval, light green in color, located symmetrically in two in the root zone of the plant. The flowers are small, white, with a sugary aroma, collected in a spike-shaped inflorescence. Grows everywhere. Rare plant. It is used in folk and traditional medicine, cosmetology and soap making.

Common flax

Herbaceous annual plant up to 80 centimeters in height. Self-sowing. Stem erect, leafy, branching at the top. The leaves are small, narrow, arranged symmetrically along the entire stem. Flowers solitary, on long stalks, blue, five-petalled. Grows everywhere. It is used in cooking, medicine, cosmetology, in textile production.

Moneywort

Grassy perennial primrose up to 30 centimeters in height. The stem is creeping, thin, rooting, with symmetrical opposite rounded leaves. The flowers are yellow, on long stalks, solitary, large, five-leaved. Grows everywhere. Used in folk medicine and as a substitute for tea.

common flax

Herbaceous perennial plant of the Plantain family, can reach a height of 90 centimeters. Stem erect, densely leafy. The leaves are small, linear, pointed. The flowers are yellow with an orange center, small. The flowers are collected in apical brushes up to 15 centimeters long. Grows everywhere. Weed plant, rarely used in floristry.

Lyubka bifolia

Herbaceous perennial tuberous plant 30-60 centimeters in height. Stem solitary and erect, glabrous. Leaves are basal (there may be 1-3 pieces). The leaves are oval, light green, large. Inflorescence in the form of a cylindrical spikelet up to 20 centimeters in length. The flowers are small, white, arranged symmetrically with respect to the spikelet. The flowers have a pungent spicy aroma. It grows in Ukraine and in the European part of Russia. It is used in folk medicine and veterinary medicine.

Lupine

Perennial shrub 80-120 cm high. Stems erect, woody, leafy to varying degrees. The leaves are palmately compound, of many narrow and long leaves. Inflorescence in the form of an apical brush. The flowers are zygomorphic, alternate, dark blue or purple. Grows in temperate climates. Used in medicine, food industry, pharmacology, cosmetology, floristry.

buttercup creeping

Herbaceous perennial plant 15-40 centimeters in height. The stem is thick, bare, creeping. Leaves trifoliate, petiolate, basal. The flowers are bisexual, regular cinquefoil, solitary, golden yellow. Grows everywhere. It is used in folk and traditional medicine.

field poppy

Herbaceous annual plant 30-80 centimeters in height. Self-sowing. Stem branched, covered with coarse bristles. The leaves are large, alternate, pinnately dissected, gray-green in color. The edge of the sheet is dissected, serrated. Pedicels are long, strong. The flowers are large, up to 7 centimeters in diameter, solitary, bright red or scarlet. The flowers consist of two tiers of petals (four each) and a black stamen with oblong anthers. Grows everywhere. Used in folk medicine, winemaking.

Cuff

Herbaceous perennial bushy plant 40-60 cm high. Stem erect, branched. The leaves are palmately dissected, rounded, with concave lobes, decorative. The flowers are small, greenish-yellow in color, collected in spherical inflorescences on single pedicels. Grows in warm climate regions. Medicinal plant. It is used in the food industry, folk medicine, floristry.

Coltsfoot

Herbaceous perennial plant of the Aster family up to 30 centimeters in height. The stem is erect, covered with scaly leaves. Basal leaves dissected by veins, oval or heart-shaped, simple. The flowers are solitary, bright yellow, outwardly similar to a dandelion. Grows in temperate climates. Used in folk medicine, valued as an excellent honey plant.

Lungwort

Herbaceous perennial plant not higher than 30 centimeters. Stem erect, pubescent. Leaves lanceolate, oval, regular, heart-shaped. The basal leaves are much larger than the stem leaves. Flowers with double perianth, bell-shaped in a pubescent basket. Most often the flowers are blue or of blue color. Grows everywhere. It is used in cooking, folk and traditional medicine.

Dandelion

Herbaceous perennial plant of the Aster family up to 60 centimeters in height. The stem is erect, multifaceted. The leaves are dark green, feather-like, basal. The flowers are solitary, yellow, coming out of a single inflorescence of the basket. All parts of the plant contain thick white juice. Grows everywhere. It is used as a fodder plant, in the food industry, in medicine, in cosmetology.

Comfrey officinalis

Herbaceous perennial plant up to 1 meter in height. Stem branched, erect. The entire stem is covered with stiff hairs. The leaves are feather-shaped, oblong, lanceolate, alternate, bluish-green. The flowers are purple, bell-shaped, rarely located along the entire upper part of the stem. Distributed everywhere. Used in medicine, excellent honey plant.

Eyebright officinalis

Herbaceous perennial plant of the Cabbage family up to 60 centimeters in height. Stem erect, leafy. The leaves are small, alternate, in the form of small hearts. Sepals straight, short, white, located at the top of the stem. Grows everywhere. It is used in folk and scientific medicine, gynecology, Armenian cuisine.

Primrose officinalis

Herbaceous perennial plant up to 80 centimeters in height. Stem erect, glabrous. The leaves are large, feather-shaped, bluish-green, clustered in the root zone. The flowers are regular, five-leaved, golden yellow, collected in an umbrella inflorescence. Grows everywhere. It is used in medicine, food industry, as an ornamental plant.

Common tansy

Herbaceous soddy perennial plant 50-150 centimeters in height. Stems erect, branched at the top. The leaves are alternate, palmate, carved, serrated. The flowers are small, regular, yellow, tubular, collected in an umbrella. The plant has a pungent camphor smell. Grows everywhere. It is widely used in the food industry, scientific and traditional medicine.

Pikulnik ordinary

Herbaceous annual plant of the Lamiaceae family up to 50 centimeters in height. Self-sowing. Stem erect, hairy. The leaves are alternate, regular, symmetrically arranged along the entire stem. The calyx is prickly, equal to the corolla tube, with five teeth. Flowers small, bell-shaped, lilac. Grows everywhere. Good honey plant.

Ivy

Perennial climbing shrub. The stem is thin, weaving. The leaves are dark green, angular-lobed. The flowers are small, white, collected in apical racemes. It grows in countries with a mild climate. Medicinal plant used in folk and traditional medicine.

Bedstraw real

Herbaceous perennial tenacious plant 60-120 centimeters in height. Stem erect, weak, pubescent. The leaves are dark green, narrow, linear, collected in whorls. The flowers are collected in a dense pyramidal panicle. The flowers are small, yellow-colored, with a pronounced honey aroma. Grows everywhere. Good honey plant. It is used in the food industry, in the paint and varnish industry.

Wormwood

Perennial herbaceous shrub 50-200 cm tall. The stem is erect, ribbed, dense, branched in the upper part. The leaves are long-petiolate, twice or thrice pinnately dissected. The whole plant is silvery green. The flowers are small, yellowish, in the form of spherical baskets. The flowers are arranged symmetrically along the entire stem. The plant has a pungent camphor smell. Grows everywhere. It is used in medicine, cooking, in the preparation of insecticides.

Primula vulgaris

Herbaceous perennial plant of the genus Primrose up to 20 centimeters in height. Stem erect, short. The leaves are lanceolate, feather-shaped, wrinkled, serrated, located in the basal zone. The flowers are funnel-shaped, regular, of various colors. Flowers are collected in sessile inflorescences. It grows in temperate regions. Decorative plant.

Lumbago

Herbaceous perennial plant of the Ranunculaceae family up to 40 centimeters in height. The stem is thick, gray, hairy. The leaves are petiolate, collected in a rosette in the root zone. The flowers are solitary, regular, large, purple, with sharp petals. Grows everywhere. It is used in traditional medicine and veterinary medicine. Poisonous.

Chamomile

Herbaceous perennial plant of the Astrov family. It reaches a height of 30-80 centimeters. The stem is erect, leafy, branched upwards. The leaves are small, narrow, carved. Inflorescences in the form of hemispherical baskets. The flowers are regular, white with a yellow center. Grows everywhere. It is applied in cosmetology, in gardening, in floristry.

pharmaceutical camomile

An annual herbaceous plant of the Astrov family up to 60 centimeters in height. Self-sowing. The stem is erect, branched from the base. The leaves are alternate, narrow, small, carved. Inflorescences numerous, in the form of a conical basket. The flowers are regular, white with a yellow center. There are bisexual yellow small flowers. Grows everywhere. It is used in medicine, cosmetology, food industry.

Chamomile yellow

Perennial herbaceous plant from the genus Pupavka of the Asteraceae family. In height reaches 25-100 centimeters. Stem erect naked. The leaves are alternate, pinnate, large. The flowers are collected in single conical baskets on long pedicels. The flowers are regular, yellow with a yellow center. Grows everywhere. Used in medicine and horticulture.

Fritillaries chess

Perennial herbaceous plant of the Ryabchikov genus of the Lilein family. In height it can reach 35 centimeters. The stem is erect, smooth, bending into an arc under the weight of the flower. The leaves are thin and long, sparsely arranged and symmetrical along the stem. Flowers solitary, drooping. The bell flower is painted in burgundy and on the main color you can see dots of dove, arranged in a checkerboard pattern. The range of the species covers almost all of Europe, with the exception of the extreme northern and extreme southern regions. Ornamental rare plant. Used in medicine.

Sverbiga eastern

Perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Sverbig of the Cabbage family. In height it can reach 40-100 centimeters. Stem erect, branched above. The leaves are serrated, oval-lanceolate, located in the root zone, in the region of the first knee of the stem. Flowers up to 5 millimeters in diameter, yellow, collected in corymbose brushes, and brushes collected in a large panicle. The plant is not whimsical to the climate. It is used in the food industry and traditional Armenian medicine.

Serpukha

Herbaceous perennial plant of the family Asteraceae or Compositae. The plant can reach a height of 15-90 centimeters. The stem is thin, erect, glabrous. Leaves pinnately dissected, alternate. Inflorescence in the form of a rough basket. The flower is pale pink, solitary or bisexual. Grows everywhere. Excellent honey plant. Used as a dye.

Feverweed

Perennial herbaceous plant of the Umbelliferae family. It can reach 1.5 meters in height. The stem is straight, glabrous, bluish in color, branched at the top. The leaves are entire, pinnatisected, prickly, serrated. Flowers are small, for the most part blue-blue, ordinary type of umbrella, collected at the top of the branches in an ovoid head. It grows mainly in the southern regions. It is used in folk medicine and as an ornamental plant.

cyanosis blue

Perennial herbaceous plant 35-140 cm high. Stems solitary, erect, hollow, indistinctly ribbed, simple or branched at the top. The leaves are alternate, pinnate, glabrous, oblong-lanceolate, pointed. Flowers blue to purple, occasionally white; collected in paniculate inflorescences at the ends of the stems. Cup with five blades. The corolla is wide open, spike-shaped, bell-shaped with a five-lobed limb. Grows everywhere. Good honey plant. It is used in folk medicine.

Smolevka

Perennial herbaceous plant, semi-shrub, Carnation family. Weed. Stems erect or ascending, branched at the top, up to 50 centimeters in height. The leaves are opposite, sessile, lanceolate, linear, spatulate, ovate. The flowers are monoecious or dioecious, collected in common paniculate or spike-shaped inflorescences, sometimes they are solitary. Corolla white, five petals. Grows everywhere. It is used in folk medicine.

Smolka common

Herbaceous perennial dicotyledonous plant of the Clove family. The stems are erect, slightly branched, reach 30-90 centimeters in height, glabrous, usually sticky at the nodes. Basal leaves on petioles, lanceolate or almost linear, pointed. The flowers are regular, pink in color in dichasial inflorescences. Smolka grows in almost all of Europe, with the exception of the southwest. Decorative plant.

sleep-grass

Perennial herbaceous plant of the Anemone genus of the Ranunculaceae family. In height reaches 7-15 centimeters. The stems are erect, covered with thick, protruding, soft hairs. Root leaves on long, not densely hairy petioles, rounded heart-shaped, three-dissected with rhombic tripartite segments. The flowers are purple or white, six-petal, star-shaped, with a yellow center. Rare plant. It is used in folk medicine as a sedative and hypnotic.

Common colza

A perennial herbaceous plant with biennial shoots, the genus Surepka from the Cabbage family. The stem is tall, branched, glabrous or slightly downy, 30-80 centimeters high. Leaves sessile, entire, from lanceolate to obovate, serrated along the edge. Inflorescence - brush, single at the beginning of flowering. The flowers are four-membered with a double perianth, bisexual, golden yellow. The flower has five stamens. Grows everywhere. It is used as a fodder plant, in medicine, in cosmetology, in cooking, in floristry.

Spiraea

Perennial herbaceous plant of the Rosaceae family. The stem is erect, pinnate up to 80 centimeters in height. The leaves are palmate, collected in a star, on long legs. Numerous small white or pink flowers collected in terminal corymbose, paniculate inflorescences. Perianths are double. Grows in temperate climates. It is used in folk and traditional medicine, food industry. Decorative plant.

yarrow

Herbaceous perennial plant, semi-shrub of the family Asteraceae or Compositae. The stem is erect or slightly curved near the soil surface. The leaves are serrated, carved or pinnately dissected, arranged in a regular order. Inflorescences are small baskets, mostly collected in a common corymbose inflorescence. The flowers are correct, white. Grows everywhere. Medicinal plant.

field tulip

Perennial herbaceous bulbous plant of the Lily family. The stem is dense, erect, with a single pedicel. The leaves are smooth or wavy, elongated, lanceolate, extending from the base of the stem to its middle. An adult plant usually has 2-4 leaves, a young plant always has only 1 leaf. Leaves are bluish green. The flower is single, six-petalled, regular with a large number of stamens. Most often, the flowers are red, yellow, white or pink. Decorative plant.

Meadow violet

Perennial herbaceous plant of the Violet genus of the Violet family. The stem is elevated, branched, erect or ascending 5-20 centimeters high. The leaves are alternate, simple, serrate. The lower leaves are petiolate, rounded oval. Flowers solitary, irregular, zygomorphic, purple. Perianth double, sepals and petals 5, not fused together. The flowers exude a heady aroma. The plant is found everywhere. It is used in cosmetology and medicine.

Horsetail

Perennial spore herbaceous plant of the genus Horsetail, family Horsetail. In height it can reach 40-60 centimeters. Generative shoots are brownish or pinkish, not branched, with triangular brown leaf teeth. Vegetative shoots green, erect, hollow, with a pico-shaped apex. Leaf teeth are collected in whorls of 6-12, sometimes up to 16 pieces, free or fused. The plant is common in subarctic, temperate and tropical climates. Used in traditional and folk medicine, food industry.

horseradish

Perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Horseradish of the Cabbage family. The stem is straight, branched, 50-150 centimeters high. Basal leaves are very large, oblong or oblong-oval, crenate, heart-shaped at the base; lower - pinnatipartite; oblong-lanceolate; upper - linear, entire. Calyx about 3 mm long; petals about 6 mm long, white, short-marigolded. Grows everywhere. Used in cooking and medicine.

Chicory ordinary

Perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Chicory of the Asteraceae family. Weed plant. The stem is erect, rod-shaped, green or bluish-green, rough, 15-150 centimeters high. Basal leaves are pinnatipartite, entire, serrated along the edge, gradually narrowed into a petiole at the base. Baskets solitary, numerous or crowded in several at the top of the stem. Flowers are reed. Corolla 15-25 mm long, different shades of blue or white. Grows everywhere. The plant is toxic. Used in medicine and cooking.

Thyme

Perennial semi-shrub plant with thin stems up to 40 centimeters in height. The leaves are thin, small, hard, oval green. The flowers are collected in small elongated inflorescences of pinkish-purple color with a very fragrant smell. It grows in Eastern Europe, Western Siberia, eastern Russia, the Caucasus. Decorative plant. Used in cosmetology.

Cheremsha

A perennial herbaceous plant with a trihedral stem up to 50 centimeters high. It has two oblong sharp leaves. The flower has the shape of a hemispherical white umbrella. Flowering period May-June. Grows in Central, Northern, Southern Europe and Turkey. Grown as a cultivated plant.

Chernogolovka ordinary

Perennial herbaceous plant 15-30 cm high. Leaves petiolate, oblong. The flowers are symmetrical on short stalks in false whorls of blue-violet (rarely yellow-white). The area of ​​growth of the countries of Asia, Japan, North America and Africa, Australia. It is used in folk medicine.

Thistle

A thorny perennial herbaceous plant with a straight stem up to 1.5 meters high. The leaves are large, hard, prickly. Flowers in the form of a basket of pink or purple. Blooms from early July to late August. It grows in Central Europe and Asia, North Africa, USA. It is used in traditional and folk medicine.

Celandine

Perennial herbaceous shrub with a straight branched stem 50-100 cm high. The leaves are lyre-shaped, dark green. The flowers are golden yellow, regular shape, collected in an umbrella. Blooms from May to August. Distributed almost everywhere. Used in medicine.

Sage

Herbaceous perennial plant or shrub 20-70 cm high. The leaves are oblong grey-green. The flowers are blue-violet, pink or white, collected in corymbose whorls. Blooms from late May to July. Grows everywhere. Widely used in medicine and cosmetology.

Rosehip cinnamon

Prickly shrub plant up to 2 meters in height. Leaves pinnate with five or seven slits. The flower is solitary, rarely double-triple, pink or dark red. Blooms from May to July. Distributed in Europe and Central Asia. Medicinal plant.

dog rose

Shrub plant 1.5-2.5 meters high, has rare thorns. The leaves are pinnate, mostly with seven slits. The flower is pink or white-pink in color, 5 centimeters in diameter, practically odorless. Distributed in Europe, North Africa, Western Asia. Used medicinally and as a graft for garden roses.

stem-rose

Mallow. Perennial or biennial herbaceous plant up to 2 meters high. The leaves are alternate, the stem is herbaceous. Self-sowing. The flower consists of five fused petals in white, pink, yellowish, cream or pink. Cultivated everywhere. Used as an ornamental and medicinal plant.

Sainfoin

Grass, shrub or shrub with thorns up to 70 centimeters high. Leaves pinnate with stipules. A flower collected in ears, the brushes of which are white, yellow or purple. Distributed in central and southern Europe, Western Asia and northern Africa. Used medicinally or as a fodder plant.

Echinacea

Perennial herbaceous plant up to 1 meter high with a straight, rough stem. Leaves on a long petiole, broadly oval, narrowed towards the petiole. The flowers are large, regular, collected in baskets up to 15 centimeters in diameter, the color can be from pink to red-brown. The plant is native to the eastern United States. Used as an ornamental and medicinal plant.

Echinocystis lobata

An annual herbaceous liana-like plant up to 6 meters long. Self-sowing. The leaves are rounded, pale green, with long petioles. The flower is dioecious, collected in racemes, with a delicate honey aroma. The flowering period is from June to September, the fruits ripen from August to October. Distributed in North America, Central Asia, the Far East, Japan, China.

Eschsolzia

Perennial herbaceous sun-loving plant 20-45 centimeters in height. Leaf on a long petiole, thrice dissected. Cup-shaped flowers from white to orange. Flowering period from June to October. It grows in western North America. Used for decorative purposes.

Orchis

Trubnevy perennial herbaceous medicinal plant with a single stem 10-50 centimeters in height. The leaves are broadly lanceolate, narrowing into a petiole. The flowers are collected in spike-shaped inflorescences from lilac to dark cherry. It grows in the mountains of the Caucasus, Crimea, North America, Central and Southern Europe. Used in cooking.

Anyone who has ever seen a flowering field will not be able to forget this wonderful sight: a continuous carpet of flowers and herbs that sways from the slightest breeze. And the smell is impossible to convey in words, the flowers heat up in the sun, and it seems that the smell only intensifies.

The world of flowers growing in the meadow is diverse. Apart from cultivated plants, very often you can find wild. Many of them, such as St. John's wort or chicory, have medicinal properties. In this article, we will analyze what meadow flowers are called and how they look in photos and pictures.

Types of meadow plants

Meadow flowers are flowers of the steppes, fields and meadows, which need a lot of light and heat. They are light green with a silvery tint, which, as it were, protects plants from the sun's scorching rays and burns. This group includes the following plants:

Yellow dandelion and other wildflowers

Any person, whether he is a city dweller or living in a distant province, at the beginning of summer observes an invasion of yellow flowers that cover many glades, meadows, parks and squares with a continuous carpet.

This is unpretentious dandelion conquers new territories. This flower grows absolutely everywhere, and literally. And it does not matter that it will be a crack in the asphalt or a hole between the bricks on the wall of the building. Sometimes, in cloudy weather, you can observe the phenomenon of the disappearance of all dandelions.

In fact, they simply close their flowers tightly in a green calyx, giving the impression of disappearing into green grass. On a sunny day dandelions bloom and close at the same time.

The yellow part of a dandelion is not a single flower, but an accumulation of many thin flower tubes. When the stalk is broken, it oozes milky juice, which is effective against the pain and swelling that occurs with a bee sting. It is enough just to put a broken stem to the bitten part of the body.

At a certain time, all yellow flowers disappear and translucent white round ones appear. These are ripe dandelion flowers. Each tubule is a flower turns into seed with an individual parachute on a thin leg. The dandelion will show off with its hat until strong wind will not carry seeds to new growth sites.

St. John's wort

In ancient times, there was an opinion about the dangers of St. John's wort for livestock. It was believed that animals that ate hay with St. John's wort would be poisoned by such food. It is not for nothing that the flower has such a formidable name - St. John's wort.

However, later it turned out that St. John's wort is not at all dangerous, and even vice versa, has many healing properties. These qualities of St. John's wort have been known to the steppe inhabitants - Kazakhs since ancient times. This plant they had a name - "dzherabay", meaning healer of wounds. It was from the Kazakhs that the methods of treatment with St. John's wort were adopted.

AT present time St. John's wort medicines widely used in traditional and folk medicine. They are used for burns, wounds, scratches. St. John's wort tinctures are used for respiratory diseases, colds, and even simply used for prevention.

St. John's wort is propagated by seeds. After flowering. In place of the flowers, boxes with seeds appear, which open in dry weather and the seeds spill onto the ground, where they germinate.

wild phlox

Phlox - this plant is distinguished by its unpretentiousness. Blooms for many years in one place. During this time, wild phloxes grow so much that they displace almost all weeds.

People appreciated the wonderful aroma and abundant flowering phlox, in connection with which garden phloxes were bred different types. This flower begins to bloom in the second half of June. The name of the flower means fiery.

And if you look at how phloxes bloom, it becomes clear where such a value comes from. As if the gardens are on fire when the phlox blossoms red, pink, white shades. It is worth noting the magnificent aroma of these flowers, which captivates many amateur flower growers.

Chicory

This is a plant from the genus of biennial or perennial herbs, which is part of the Asteraceae family. The genus includes two species that are cultivated by humans and up to six wild ones.

Cultivated species:

1. Salad;
2. Ordinary.

The swollen chicory root contains a large amount of inulin, reaching 75% of the share. Because of this, the root is often used instead of coffee. Often, dried and roasted chicory root is added to natural coffee to improve taste.

Chicory can act as a sedative, astringent, choleretic, diuretic, antimicrobial, antihelminthic, anti-inflammatory agent. It is able to regulate metabolism, have a beneficial effect on digestion, reduce the amount of sugar in the blood, and even improve the functioning of the cardiovascular system.

The use of meadow plants in medicine

Chicory is used only in folk medicine. The root part is used to prepare a decoction, which helps with diseases associated with the gallbladder, liver, kidneys. Also, a remedy made from chicory roots is excellent for digestive problems.

Has a beneficial effect on gastritis, constipation, diabetes. Brings general health back to normal metabolic processes organism.

A decoction and tinctures from the ground part of the plant are used to stimulate appetite, improve the condition of the gastrointestinal tract, and treat anemia.

The remedy from the stems and leaves of chicory has proven itself well, as in soothing and tonic for the nervous and vascular-cardiac systems. Also, decoctions are used for external use, in order to accelerate the healing of wounds and their treatment.

There are a huge number of field plants that have medicinal properties. For example:

1. Red meadow clover. It is an excellent diaphoretic, diuretic and choleretic agent. It has an anti-inflammatory effect. Helps stop bleeding. For colds, it is used as an expectorant.
2. Cornflower. A flower growing in a meadow. It is used for colds, as an antipyretic, diaphoretic. The flower is endowed with anti-inflammatory, analgesic, wound healing and laxative effects. Effective for stomach and colds. Helps in the treatment of constipation.
3. Chamomile. A wild flower with antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties. Effective at skin problems. It is used for pain in the gastrointestinal tract.

This list is endless. Nature has generously endowed our planet useful and beautiful field plants. In the meadow you can find:

• bells;
• meadow geranium;
• buttercups;
• dandelions;
• poppies;
• cloves grass, etc.

It is very important to protect environment. Since human activity often leads to the disappearance of both animals and plants.