Perennial plant. Stems numerous, arising from
Rhizomes, up to 60 cm tall, prostrate at base, simple or branched,-angled, shallowly sulcate, often purplish red, densely white spreading SETAE, lower part sparsely internodes Elongate, much longer than leaf blade. Leaves triangular-ovoid, Ca. 1.2-2 cm long, ca. 1-1.7 cm wide, apex obtuse or acute, base rounded or subshallowly cordate, margin crenate-serrate, olive-green above, White Ciliate, closely margined, lighter below, main veins along all levels by White Cilia, the rest with inconspicuous pits glandular points, lateral veins 4-5 pairs, with the midrib above slightly depressed or nearly flat, below with purplish red, prominent uplift; petiole very short, 1-3 mm long, often purplish red, densely white spreading SETAE. Verticillate inflorescences many flowered dense, hemispherical, when flowering up to 3.5 cm with Corolla diameter, borne on stems, apices of branches, aggregated upward; bracts leaflike, proximally slightly exceeding calyx, tapering upward, bract-like, acicular, ribbed, as long as or slightly shorter than Calyx, covered with white spreading CILIUM and minute glandular spots, apex purplish red. CALYX cylindric, flowering Ca. 9 mm, 13-veined, outer mostly white setose along veins, remaining densely minutely glandular punctate, inner surface white sparsely pilose above throat, base slightly swollen when fruiting, upper lip 3-toothed, teeth long-triangular, somewhat reflexed, apex Short awned-pointed, lower lip 2 teeth, teeth subequal to upper lip, triangular, Apex Long awned-pointed. Corolla Pink, larger, 1.5-2 cm long, inside with two rows of pubescence below lower lip, Corolla tube very extended, base 1.5 mm wide, gradually expanded upward from extension to throat up to 5 mm wide, cornice 2-lipped, upper lip straight, APEX emarginate, lower Lip 3-lobed, middle lobe larger. Stamens 4, anterior pair longer, both extending below upper lip, rarely exceeding, anthers ovoid, 2-loculed, cells slightly forked. Style slightly beyond upper lip, apex unequally 2-lobed, lobes flattened. Flat-topped disk. Ovary glabrous. Nutlets obovate, Ca. 1 mm long, Ca. 0.9 mm wide, Brown, glabrous. Flowering 7-9 months, fruiting 8-11 months.Most of the country are distributed, the qinghai-tibet Plateau is less, more distribution and south China.Spring, summer and winter can be sown. Seed Treatment: Soak the seeds in water for 12 hours before sowing, mix with 2 times volume of wet sand and sow 2-3 days later. Winter sowing requires no treatment of seeds. No matter in which season, the first leveling watering, to be suitable after the iron rake rake flat floating soil, according to the line distance of 24 cm, 1-2 cm shallow ditch, the seeds evenly scattered in the ditch, and then canning watering, General 7-10 days can seedling. If the growth period of drought can be timely watering. The seeds of CNIDIUM MONNIERI grow very fast. No fertilizer is needed in the first year to avoid lodging. You can plant it twice a year, and you don't have to plant it again the second time. CNIDIUM MONNIERI is cold-resistant and drought-resistant. It is not strict to soil and has strong adaptability.
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