Adonis Volga ( lat. Adónis wolgénsis ) is a perennial herb ; species of the genus Adonis .
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Description
Height 15-30 cm.
Rhizome short, thick, brownish black.
Stems are few, sprawling-branching from the middle, brownish at base.
Young leaves and stems are abundantly pubescent; leaves are strongly dissected into lobes.
The flowers are pale yellow, 3.5-4.5 cm in diameter; petals 17-22 mm long and 6-7 mm wide. Blossoms in late April. Flower formula : [2] .
The many-dots are rounded, the fruits are almost smooth, hairy, about 4 mm wide, the spout is bent downwards. Fruits in May.
Differs from Adonis in spring with a lower height, almost from the base with branched stems, smaller flowers and wider, shorter linear-lanceolate lobes of the leaves. The whole plant is lighter in color of leaves and flowers.
Spread
It grows in Ukraine , in the Crimea , in the European part of Russia (Zavolzhsky, Black Sea, Nizhne-Don, Nizhne-Volzhsky regions), in Western Siberia (Upper Tobolsk, Irtysh, Altai areas), in the Caucasus (South Transcaucasia ), in Moldova , in Central Asia (Aral-Caspian, Balkhash regions).
It grows in the steppes (especially in the subzone of dry steppes), less often on forest lawns and forest edges , on grassy slopes in the middle mountain belt, mainly on chestnut soils .
Meaning and application
Ornamental plant , lighter in culture than Adonis spring . Blooms on 6-7-8 years after sowing. Gives self-seeding . Cultivated rarely [3] .
Medicinal properties
For therapeutic purposes, the aerial part of the plant is used. Roots contain 12% fatty oil. Carbohydrates and related compounds are found in the aerial part: adonite ; cardenolides ( strophanthidin , convallatoxin , tsimerin , K-strophanthin-beta E-strophanthoside , adonitoxin ); coumarins ( umbelliferon , skopoletin ); flavonoids ( apigenin , luteolin , vitexin , orientin , homoorientin ). Leaves contain vitamin C.
In terms of pharmacological actions, the aerial part of the plant is similar to that of the spring adonis, but in many ways inferior to the latter.
Notes
- ↑ About the conditionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a higher taxon for the group of plants described in this article, see the section “APG Systems” of the article “Dicotyledons” .
- ↑ Ecoflora of Ukraine = Ecoflora of Ukraine (ukr.) / Vidpov. editor Y.P. Dіduh. - Kyiv: Phytosociocentre, 2004. - T. 2. - 480 p.
- ↑ Encyclopedia of plants on the Agbin website
Literature
- Lavrenova G.V., Lavrenov V.K. Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants. —- Donechchina Publishing House. - 1997.