Botanical illustration from the book of
K. A. M. Lindman Bilder ur Nordens Flora ,
1917-1926 This plant overwinters with the help of a long, creeping, branched, rather strong rhizome , covered with short hairs.
Rhizome gives uplifting shoots, bearing cirrus leaves about 5-7 close, oblong, along the edge of acicular leaflets ; the upper side of the leaves is dark green, the lower is sulfur-milk; stipules quite attached to the petiole.
The flowers are few, dark red, bisexual, regular, typical of the Pink family , to which the plant itself belongs. The cup is double; the foot consists of five rather small leaves; there are also five sepals ; they are ovoid, pointed, dark red inside; pointed lanceolate petals, dark red, two or three times shorter than sepals; there are also five of them. There are many stamens and pistils . Flower formula : {\ displaystyle \ ast K _ {(5)} \; C_ {5} \; A _ {\ infty} \; G _ {\ underline {\ infty}}} [2]
The fruit is multi-root. Fruitlets - naked nuts sitting on a spongy-fleshy receptacle .
In folk medicine, the saber is found to be of great use: from diarrhea , aches, as a diaphoretic, and from a chemer in horses.
Late spring and early summer honey plants give nectar and pollen to bees [3] .
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Thickets on the shore of a pond. Russia, Ivanovo region, Yuzhsky district; sheet; flowers fruit; the seeds |
Under the name "saber" in Russia there are several plants that resemble a saber in the shape of their xiphoid leaves or shoots ; such, for example: Common Air ( Acorus calamus L. ), Common Reed ( Phragmites communis Trin. ), Iris araumoid ( Iris pseudacorus L. ), Highlander serpentine ( Polygonum bistorta L. ).
