Plants of the Urals (Photo, description)

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Walking through the Ural forests, we come across a wide variety of different plants that caught our eye with bright colors. But without a special botanical education, we often do not know at all what kind of plants they are and what medicinal benefits they can bring us. In this article we will look at the medicinal plants of the Urals, their healing properties, methods of use, where you can find them, and also see them in the photo.

Adonis spring

A perennial herbaceous plant from the buttercup family with a thick short rhizome and several stems reaching 30-50 cm in height. The leaves are twice or thrice pinnately dissected into narrow lanceolate lobes. The flowers are large, golden yellow, with numerous petals and a large number of stamens and pistils. Small fruits are collected in fruit clusters. Blooms in May - June. The plant is poisonous .

Adonis grows on dry open slopes and forest edges. Distributed in forest-steppe regions of the Urals. The entire above-ground part of the plant is harvested from the beginning of flowering until the fruit begins to flow. Dry quickly, avoiding direct sunlight. Adonis herb contains cardiac glycosides. Herbal infusions are used for heart failure, increased nervous excitability, and dropsy as a diuretic. A decoction of rhizomes is drunk for pneumonia. To prepare a decoction, pour one tablespoon of dry herb into two glasses of boiling water, leave for 20 minutes, filter and take a tablespoon 4 times a day.

Lungwort

Lungwort grows in Europe. This plant is rich in microelements and a large amount of mucus and copes well with the following problems:

relieves inflammation;
promotes the removal of sputum;
cleanses the blood;
relieves pain;
normalizes the nervous system;
improves immunity;
replenishes potassium and iodine deficiency;
normalizes acid-base balance;
improves the functioning of the endocrine glands;
prevents the formation of blood clots.

The plant has diaphoretic and diuretic properties and is also an excellent pain reliever. The components included in its composition help normalize metabolism and increase the body's protective functions.

Calamus marsh

A perennial herbaceous plant from the aroid family with a creeping fragrant rhizome, white and porous inside. Lily leaves, reaching a meter in length, emerge in bunches from the upper end of the rhizome. It blooms in June-July with small greenish-yellow flowers collected in a spadix. The whole plant smells nice. Calamus reproduces vegetatively - by segments of rhizomes. It grows along the banks of slow-flowing rivers, lakes, and in wetlands. Calamus comes from India and China and was brought to the Urals during the Tatar-Mongol invasion. The rhizomes of calamus are mainly used, which are collected in late autumn, washed and air-dried. Store in closed jars.

In scientific and folk medicine, infusions and decoctions of calamus are used for gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulcers, bronchitis, cough, pneumonia, and tuberculosis.

Marsh rosemary

An evergreen shrub from the heather family, 1 m high. Grows in peat bogs and wetlands. The leaves are leathery, with downturned edges and rusty-felt pubescence on the underside. White, regular-shaped flowers are collected in umbrella-shaped inflorescences at the top of the branches. Blooms from May to July. The fruit is a drooping capsule. The entire plant is poisonous . The tops of branches with leaves are used for medicinal purposes. Drying wild rosemary branches should be done in a well-ventilated area, since the smell of essential oils contained in the leaves causes headaches and sometimes respiratory and cardiac problems.

In folk medicine, wild rosemary is used in the form of decoctions and infusions for pulmonary tuberculosis, cough, asthma, whooping cough, bronchitis, as well as in the treatment of eczema, gout, scrofula, chronic rheumatism, and neurasthenia. To prepare the decoction, brew 2 tablespoons of leafy wild rosemary branches in a liter of boiling water, infuse and drink a tablespoon 3-5 times a day.

Henbane black

A biennial herbaceous plant from the Solanaceae family with an erect stem. The leaves are oval, toothed, stalk-embracing, arranged alternately. The flowers are dirty yellow, with purple veins, collected at the tops of the stems. The entire plant is covered with sticky hairs. The fruit is a two-lobed capsule with a lid containing small seeds. Blooms from June to August. Henbane grows in weedy places, fallow fields, in vegetable gardens and courtyards, near homes, along roads. The plant is very poisonous , so care must be taken when collecting it.

For medicinal purposes, the basal (rosette) leaves of the first year are collected, as well as stem leaves and grass - the entire above-ground part at a height of 8-10 cm from the ground during the flowering period. Henbane preparations are prescribed orally as an antispasmodic and analgesic. Externally, for rubbing, bleached oil is used as an anesthetic for rheumatism, neuralgia, myositis, and gout. The first signs of henbane poisoning: dry mouth and throat, difficulty breathing, dilated pupils, nausea, vomiting, headache, increased heart rate, severe agitation, delirium. It is necessary to urgently consult a doctor.

Chicory

Chicory is an asteraceous perennial plant with a spindle-shaped and thick root. The entire plant contains milky sap.

Chicory is found in Ukraine and Russia. It grows on borders, hills and along roads. The plant is grown for medicinal purposes in many countries.

Chicory normalizes metabolism in the body and is able to remove all toxins from the body. Chicory cleanses the kidneys and helps improve the condition of diabetics. In addition, it is used to improve blood composition. Chicory stimulates appetite, improves intestinal activity, and is also an excellent remedy for heartburn. Due to the ability of chicory to increase the overall tone of the body, it is used instead of coffee beans. A drink made from chicory cleanses blood vessels and relieves tiredness and tiredness.

Chicory has anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties. It is used as an antipyretic for colds and other diseases.

Siberian hogweed

A perennial, pubescent plant from the Umbelliferae family, with large sessile pinnately divided leaves, 90-150 cm high. Small greenish-white flowers are collected in complex multi-rayed umbels. The fruit is a flat two-seeded seed with wide wings. Blooms in July-August. It grows in bushes, forest edges, in damp meadows, along the banks of rivers and streams in the forest and forest-steppe zones of the Urals. Roots, leaves and seeds are used for medicinal purposes. The roots are collected in September-October. Leaves - in June-July. Seeds - in September.

In folk medicine, an infusion of the herb and a decoction or infusion of the roots are prescribed to improve digestion. Hogweed is used for skin diseases, and as a sedative, for convulsions of various origins, epilepsy and other nervous diseases, as well as for cancer. Hogweed is edible and is used to season soups and borscht. Salads are prepared from leaves, shoots and rhizomes.

Pansies

This plant is also called tricolor violet, Ivan-da-Marya, Marjannik oakbravny.

Interesting! The following names have taken root among the people: axes, three-flowered, brother-and-sister, field brothers, moths, half-flower.

A perennial frost-resistant herbaceous flower, growing up to 40 cm in height with alternate, bare petiolate leaves, growing smaller towards the top of the stem. Flowers on thin stalks are tetrahedral, tricolor, reach a diameter of 6 cm. It grows everywhere. In medicine it is used for respiratory diseases.

Ledum (Klopovnik)

The bush is a perennial, growing up to 2 m in height with small bluish-green leaves located along the entire length of the stem. The flowers are four-leaved crimson with an intoxicating aroma, reaching a diameter of 4 cm. There are many of them, collected in umbrellas. It grows everywhere. In cosmetology and medicine it is used for whooping cough and rheumatism.

Valerian medicinal

Important! This plant is also called cat root, cat grass, mountain grass, aromatic grass, odolyan, earthen incense, goat grass, sore grass, pink yarrow.

A perennial herbaceous flower growing up to 150 cm in height with long-petioled leaves that do not densely cover the stem. The flowers are small, pale pink with a fragrant aroma, reaching 5 mm in diameter. They are collected in umbrella inflorescences. It grows everywhere.

Important! In medicine it is used as a sedative and antispasmodic. Valerian is also used in cosmetology.

Cornflower blue

Interesting! Common names: Voloshka, Sinki, Blavat.

A perennial herbaceous meadow flower growing up to 1 m in height with pubescent, lanceolate, oval-elongated leaves of bluish-green color. The flowers are blue in different shades, reaching a diameter of 5 cm. They are collected in basket inflorescences. It grows everywhere.

Important! In medicine, it is used to treat conjunctivitis, blepharitis, increased eye fatigue, and also as an anti-inflammatory and disinfectant. Cornflowers are also used in cosmetology.

Dianthus meadow

A perennial herbaceous dicotyledonous flower growing up to 40 cm in height with pubescent linear leaves. Flowers with five serrated petals can be red, pink, or less often white. This meadow plant is protected in the Saratov region.

Important! In medicine it is used in the treatment of infertility.

Meadow geranium

A perennial herbaceous dicotyledonous flower growing up to 80 cm in height with five-parted stem leaves at the bottom and three-partite leaves at the top. The flowers are large, wide with five petals of lilac color. There are a lot of them. It grows everywhere.

Important! In medicine, it is used to prepare infusions and decoctions for insomnia.

Elecampane

A perennial herbaceous dicotyledonous flower growing up to 100 cm in height with narrow, whole, light green leaves. The flowers are orange or yellow, arranged singly or in corymbose racemes. It grows everywhere.

Important! In medicine, it is used as an expectorant for chronic bronchitis, tracheitis, and pulmonary tuberculosis. Also often used in cosmetology.

Delphinium (larkspur, spur)

The bush is perennial, growing up to 150 cm in height with arrow-shaped leaves emanating from the root zone. The flowers are small, collected in pyramid-shaped inflorescences located on a long peduncle. Can be of different shades: white, blue, pink, lilac, red, yellow. Grows in regions with warm climates.

Watch the video! Unpretentious perennials that bloom all summer

Important! The plant cannot be used in its pure form, as it is poisonous.

Used in soap making. In medicine, it is used to treat respiratory diseases such as asthma, severe cough and pneumonia as a pain reliever.

St. John's wort (common)

A perennial herbaceous flower that grows up to 80 cm in height. The leaves are elliptical, dark green, symmetrically arranged on an erect stem. The flowers are bright yellow, collected in corymbose inflorescences. Grows in Russia and Ukraine.

Important! In medicine, it is used as a medicinal plant for the treatment of infected, non-healing wounds, ulcers, and burns. In dentistry, St. John's wort infusion is used to rinse the mouth for gingivitis and stomatitis.

Iris (Iris, Cockerel)

A perennial rhizomatous flower growing up to 60 cm in height with flat, sword-shaped leaves collected at the base of the stem, which can be single or tufted. The flowers are yellow, purple, white, lilac, burgundy, pink, and can be single or collected in groups of 3 in an inflorescence. It grows everywhere.

Important! In cosmetology it is used to eliminate freckles, acne, wrinkles and stimulate hair growth.

Fireweed angustifolia (Ivan-tea)

Interesting! The plant is also called plakun, mother plant, breadbox, miller, Koporsky tea, skrypnik, Russian tea, koporka, wild flax.

A perennial herbaceous flower growing up to 50-150 cm in height with linear-lanceolate, pointed dark green leaves, densely arranged on an erect, rounded stem. The flowers are four-membered pink with double perianths, bisexual, reaching 3 cm in diameter. They are collected in an apical raceme 45 cm in length. It grows everywhere.

In medicine and cosmetology it is used as an anti-inflammatory, sedative and diaphoretic. And also for the treatment of psoriasis, lichen planus, neurodermatitis, eczema.

Interesting! In the summer they are collected, dried, fermented and a very healthy and tasty tea drink called Koporye tea is obtained.

Clover pink

A perennial herbaceous flower growing up to 80 cm in height with oval trifoliate leaves and a tubular, branched, straight stem. The flowers are pink or crimson in the shape of corollas, collected in spherical inflorescence heads. It grows everywhere. It is an excellent honey plant and fodder plant.

Important! It is used for abscesses, burns and rheumatic pain.

Common bluebell

A rare biennial herbaceous flower that grows up to 70 cm in height and reproduces by self-seeding. The leaves are small, arranged alternately on an erect, thin stem. The corolla is bell-shaped. The flowers are purple, collected in racemose or paniculate inflorescences. Grows in temperate latitudes.

Important! The plant is used as an anti-inflammatory, hemostatic, analgesic and sedative for skin diseases.

Lily of the valley

A perennial herbaceous flower of the Liliaceae genus, growing up to 40 cm in height with large, oval, light green leaves, arranged symmetrically in twos in the root zone. Thin, bare, erect stem. The flowers are small, white, fragrant, collected in an inflorescence in the form of a spikelet. It grows everywhere.

Important! In folk and classical medicine, lily of the valley is used to prepare tinctures for neuroses. It is also used in cosmetology and soap making.

Common flax

An annual herbaceous flower that grows up to 80 cm in height and reproduces by self-sowing. The leaves are narrow, small, symmetrically arranged along an erect branching stem. The flowers are blue, five-petaled, arranged singly on long stalks. It grows everywhere.

Important! Flax is used in cooking, cosmetology, and textile production. In medicine, the plant is used as a mild laxative for spastic constipation, and also externally for burns.

Common toadflax

A perennial herbaceous flower of the Plantain family, growing up to 90 cm in height with small, linear, pointed leaves, densely arranged on an erect stem. The flowers are small, yellow with an orange center, collected at the top in racemes up to 15 cm. Grows everywhere.

Important! The plant is used in floristry. In medicine it is used for skin diseases, for the treatment of urolithiasis and cholelithiasis.

Lupine

A perennial subshrub growing up to 80-120 cm in height with compound leaves consisting of long and narrow leaflets. Stems are woody, erect, with varying foliage. The flowers are zygomorphic, dark blue or purple, collected in apical inflorescences in the form of a brush. Grows in temperate climates.

Important! In medicine, it is used for type 2 diabetes, pain and spasms. The plant is also used in cosmetology, floristry, pharmacology and the food industry.

Creeping buttercup

A perennial herbaceous flower growing up to 15-40 cm in height with trifoliate, petiolate, basal leaves. The stem is thick, creeping. The flowers are bisexual, five-leaved, golden-yellow, arranged solitary. It grows everywhere.

Important! In folk and classical medicine it is used to remove warts, scabies and purulent wounds in animals.

Field poppy (self-seeded)

An annual herbaceous flower that grows up to 30-80 cm in height and reproduces by self-sowing. The leaves are large, alternate, pinnate, gray-green. The stem is branched with coarse bristles. The flowers are large, up to 7 cm in diameter, red or scarlet, consisting of two tiers of petals and a black stamen. They are located singly on long, strong stalks. It grows everywhere.

Important! In alternative medicine it is used as a cough syrup and sedative.

Coltsfoot

A perennial herbaceous flower of the Aster family, growing up to 30 cm in height with basal oval or heart-shaped leaves, dissected by veins. The stem is erect. The flowers are yellow, dandelion-like, solitary. Grows in temperate climates. It is an excellent honey plant.

Important! In medicine, the plant is used externally to treat skin infections and wounds. It is considered an excellent expectorant.

Lungwort

A perennial herbaceous flower growing up to 30 cm in height with lanceolate, oval leaves. The basal leaves are larger than the stem leaves. The stem is erect, pubescent. The flowers are blue or blue bell-shaped with a double perianth. It grows everywhere.

Important! The plant is used in cooking, folk and classical medicine. Lungwort tea is prescribed for sore throat, cough, dysentery and diarrhea, as well as to treat bladder problems.

Dandelion

A perennial herbaceous flower of the Asteraceae family, growing up to 60 cm in height with feather-like, basal leaves. The stem is multifaceted, erect. The flowers are yellow, solitary. Rich white juice is found in all parts of the plant. It grows everywhere.

Important! It is used in the food industry, medicine, cosmetology, and also for animal feed. Dandelion infusion and decoction are used for pancreatitis, gastritis, cholecystitis, constipation and diabetes.

Interesting! Coltsfoot and dandelion are similar in flower shade and belong to the Asteraceae family. However, these are different types. They differ in the shape of the leaves. Dandelion's are oblong, coltsfoot's are wide.

Medicinal comfrey or larkspur

A perennial herbaceous flower growing up to 100 cm in height with bluish-green feather-like, oblong leaves. The stem is erect, branched with stiff hairs. The flowers are purple, bell-shaped, located on top of the stem. It grows everywhere. It is an excellent honey plant.

Important! In medicine, larkspur is used to heal wounds, ulcers, bone diseases, rheumatoids, gout, osteochondrosis, arthritis, arthrosis, inflammation of the periosteum, dislocations and bone fractures.

Shepherd's Purse

A perennial herbaceous flower of the Brassica family, growing up to 60 cm in height with small, alternate, heart-shaped leaves. The stem is straight, leafy. The flowers are small white, concentrated at the top of the stem. It grows everywhere.

Important! In gynecology, the plant is used to treat uterine atony and uterine bleeding. The aerial part of the flower is used in veterinary medicine for diarrhea and internal bleeding.

Medicinal primrose or spring primrose

A perennial herbaceous flower growing up to 80 cm in height with bluish-green, large, feather-like leaves, clustered in the root zone. The stem is straight, naked. The flowers are yellow, five-leaved, collected in umbellate inflorescences. It grows everywhere.

Important! In medicine, it is used to treat bronchitis, tonsillitis, osteochondrosis, and intervertebral hernia. Primrose is also used as an ornamental plant and in the food industry.

Tansy

A perennial turfy herbaceous flower growing up to 50-150 cm in height with palmate, carved, toothed leaves. The stems are straight, branched at the top. The flowers are yellow, small, tubular, collected in umbellate inflorescences. Exudes a pungent camphor aroma. It grows everywhere.

Important! Tansy is used in the food industry, classical and alternative medicine. The plant helps fight worms and is also used as a choleretic agent for liver diseases.

Ivy

A perennial creeping shrub with dark green angular-lobed leaves and a thin, twining stem. The flowers are small, white, collected at the top in inflorescences. Grows in temperate climates.

Important! In folk and classical medicine, ivy is taken as an expectorant for diseases of the respiratory system, and it is also used for gastrointestinal diseases, gout, rickets, and tuberculosis.

Wormwood

A perennial herbaceous shrub growing up to 50-200 cm in height with long-petioled, pinnately dissected leaves and a straight, branched stem at the top. All wormwood is silvery-green in color. The flowers are yellow, small, like spherical baskets, arranged symmetrically along the length of the stem. Exudes a pungent camphor aroma. It grows everywhere.

Important! Used in cooking to prepare insect repellents. In medicine it is used as an anthelmintic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic and wound-healing agent. And also for the treatment of gastritis, gastric ulcers, for lotions and compresses for bruises, purulent wounds and ulcers, allergies.

Lumbago (Sleep-grass)

A perennial herbaceous flower of the Ranunculaceae family, growing up to 40 cm in height with petiolate leaves collected in a rosette in the root zone. The stem is gray, thick, and hairy. The flowers are large, purple with sharp petals. It grows everywhere.

Important! In classical medicine it is used as an expectorant. Also used in veterinary medicine. Poisonous.

Chamomile

A perennial herbaceous flower of the Astrov family, growing up to 30-80 cm in height with small, narrow, carved leaves and a straight upward branched stem. The flowers are white with a yellow center, collected in hemispherical baskets. It grows everywhere.

Important! Chamomile is used in cosmetology, gardening and floristry. Used to treat gastrointestinal diseases. Chamomile decoction is used to rinse the mouth for gingivitis, stomatitis, pharyngitis, and tonsillitis.

Meadowsweet or Meadowsweet

A perennial herbaceous flower of the Rosaceae family, growing up to 80 cm in height with palmate leaves on long stalks, collected in a star. The stem is straight, pinnate. The flowers are small, white or pink, collected in corymbose, paniculate inflorescences. They have double perianths. Grows in temperate climates.

Important! The plant is used in folk and classical medicine and the food industry. Used for liver detoxification, and also as a bactericidal, antiviral, sedative, anthelmintic, and antiulcer agent.

Yarrow or Cut Herb

A perennial herbaceous shrub of the Asteraceae or Asteraceae family with serrated, carved or pinnately dissected leaves. The stem is straight or slightly curved at the base. The flowers are white, collected in a common corymbose inflorescence consisting of small baskets. It grows everywhere.

Important! A medicinal plant used in medicine as a hemostatic agent.

Field tulip

A perennial herbaceous bulbous flower of the Liliaceae family with smooth or wavy, oblong leaves that grow from the base of the stem to its middle. The stem is straight, dense, with a single peduncle. A young plant has 1 leaf, an adult plant has 2-4 leaves of a bluish-green hue. The flowers are red, yellow, white or pink, single, six-petaled with many stamens.

Important! Ornamental plant.

Horsetail

A perennial spore-bearing herbaceous flower of the Horsetail genus, Equiaceae family, growing up to 40-60 cm in height with brownish or pinkish generative shoots, brown triangular leaf teeth and a peak-shaped tip. The leaves are collected in whorls of 6-12 pieces; they can be free or fused. Grows in subarctic, temperate and tropical climates.

Important! Horsetail is used in classical and alternative medicine and the food industry. Used to treat edema, heart and lung failure.

Common chicory

A perennial herbaceous flower of the Chicory genus, Asteraceae family, growing up to 15-150 cm in height with basal leaves pinnately divided, serrated along the edge, narrowed at the base into a petiole. A weed plant with a straight, twig-like, green or bluish-green, rough stem. The baskets are single or clustered in several pieces at the top of the stem. The flowers are blue or white, reed-shaped. Corolla 15-25 mm long. It grows everywhere.

Important! The plant is toxic and is used in cooking. In medicine, it is used to treat chronic cholecystitis, pneumonia, gastrointestinal diseases, poor digestion, liver cirrhosis, and jaundice.

Thyme, thyme

Important! The plant is also called: Bogorodskaya grass, savory, small motherwort, heather, zhidobnik, boron pepper, chebarka, flypalm, incense.

A perennial herbaceous flower growing up to 40 cm in height with slender stems and thin, small, oval-shaped green leaves. Flowers with a fragrant aroma are pinkish-violet, collected in small oblong inflorescences. Grows in Eastern Europe, Western Siberia, eastern Russia, and the Caucasus. Ornamental plant.

Important! Thyme is used in cosmetology. And also in medicine as a diaphoretic, anticonvulsant and sedative, for whooping cough, neuralgia, and stomach cramps.

Ramson, Bear onion

A perennial herbaceous flower growing up to 50 cm in height with oblong, pointed leaves. The flowers are white in the shape of a hemispherical umbrella. Blooms in May-June. Grows in Central, Northern and Southern Europe, as well as Turkey.

Important! It is a cultivated edible plant.

Thistle

A spiny herbaceous flower growing up to 150 cm in height with a straight stem and large, hard and spiny leaves. The flowers are pink or purple as a basket. Blooms in July-August. Grows in Central Europe and Asia, North Africa, USA.

Important! In classical and alternative medicine it is used to improve heart function, increase vascular tone, blood pressure and intestinal tone, and increase urination. It is especially used as an anticonvulsant.

Celandine

A perennial herbaceous shrub growing up to 50-100 cm in height with a straight branched stem and lyre-shaped dark green leaves. Yellow flowers collected in an umbrella. Blooms in May-August. It grows everywhere.

Important! In medicine, it is used as a local anti-inflammatory agent for skin diseases such as psoriasis, eczema, and dermatitis.

Sage

A perennial herbaceous shrub growing up to 20-70 cm in height with oblong gray-green leaves. The flowers are blue-violet, pink or white, collected in corymbose whorls. Blooms in May-July. It grows everywhere.

Important! Sage is actively used in cosmetology. In medicine, it is used to treat inflammatory diseases of the oropharynx and nasopharynx.

Rosehip cinnamon

A perennial thorny shrub growing up to 200 in height with odd-pinnate leaves with 5-7 cuts. The flowers are pink and dark red, arranged singly or 2-3 together. Blooms in May-July. Grows in Europe and Central Asia. A medicinal plant, it is used in medicine as a lotion to treat the eyes and as a rinse for sore throats.

Stock rose

Important! Also called mallow.

A perennial or biennial herbaceous flower growing up to 200 cm in height with alternate leaves and a herbaceous stem that reproduce by self-seeding. The flowers are white, pink, yellowish, cream or pink with 5 fused petals. It grows everywhere.

Important! It has decorative and medicinal properties. In winemaking and cooking it is used to enhance the red color. In medicine it is used to treat gastritis and colitis.

Echinacea

A perennial herbaceous flower growing up to 100 cm in height with a straight, rough stem. The leaves are wide, tapering to a long petiole. The flowers are pink to red-brown, large, collected in baskets up to 15 cm in diameter. Native to the eastern USA.

Important! It has decorative and medicinal properties. Echinacea is used to increase immunity, treat wounds, smallpox, sepsis, and erysipelas.

Eschszolzia

A perennial herbaceous sun-loving flower, growing up to 20-45 cm in height with triple-dissected leaves on a long petiole. The flowers are cup-shaped, white to orange. Blooms from June to October. Grows in western North America. Has decorative properties.

Important! In medicine it is used as a sedative and antispasmodic, as well as a mild pain reliever.

Snooze

Perennial of the Apiaceae family. The stem is straight, branches at the top, reaches up to 1 m in height. The leaves are oblong, ovoid, pointed, up to 8 cm long. It grows in mixed forests, shrubs, clearings, and also causes a lot of inconvenience for gardeners, as it multiplies rapidly and infests everything around. Shade-tolerant. Suitable for consumption, put in salads. Added to cabbage soup and borscht instead of cabbage.

Used in medicine as an antiscorbutic agent.

It is very difficult to get rid of it. It is necessary to reduce the acidity of the soil. The process is long. Adding chalk, lime, and dolomite flour will gradually reduce the number of sprouts, and then the weed will simply move to where it is more comfortable. Watch the video! Wild flowers with names

Cowberry

An evergreen shrub from the lingonberry family, up to 30 cm high, with a creeping rhizome. The leaves are alternate, overwintering, thick, leathery, with glands in the form of brown dots on the underside. The flowers are pale pink, in short drooping racemes. The fruit is a dark red berry. Blooms in May-June. Distributed in mixed and taiga forests, swamps, and moss-lichen tundra.

In medicine, lingonberry leaves are used, which should be collected before flowering. Lingonberry leaves are used as a diuretic for low acidity, liver disease, gout, bedwetting in children, rheumatism, and kidney stones. With short-term use of an infusion of lingonberry leaves, the blood sugar level decreases. Boiled lingonberries with honey are recommended for tuberculosis. Due to the benzoic acid content in lingonberries, the berries can be stored without sugar. The peoples of the Northern Urals - the Khanty and Mansi - collect the juice of lingonberry leaves during flowering and use it to treat radiculitis: rubbed into sore spots for 5-6 minutes 2-3 times a day.

Cornflower blue

An annual herbaceous plant from the Asteraceae family. Leaves are lanceolate. Blue flowers are collected in baskets; the edges are funnel-shaped, the middle ones are tubular, with a purple tint. Cornflower blooms from May to August. Grows like a weed in rye crops. The marginal flowers have medicinal uses. An infusion of flowers has a diuretic, choleretic, and antifever effect. Therefore, it is used mainly for diseases of the kidneys and bladder. It also helps with coughs, constipation and stomach pain.

To prepare the infusion, pour a teaspoon of marginal flowers into a glass of boiling water and leave for an hour. Drink 1/4 glass 3 times a day 20 minutes before meals. A decoction of cornflower (about a handful of petals in half a liter of water, boil for 5 minutes) in the form of lotions is used in the treatment of conjunctivitis and as a cosmetic for enlarged skin pores.

Black crowberry

An evergreen branched, creeping shrub with dark brown leaves from the crow family. The leaves are small, elliptical. The flowers are axillary, pink, appear in May-June. The fruit is a black berry. It grows in peat bogs, in damp places in the tundra and polar-arctic zones of the Polar, Subpolar and Northern Urals.

Crowberry has long been known as a sedative. Therefore, an infusion of the herb (a tablespoon of herb in a glass of boiling water) is used for fatigue, headaches, nervous functional disorders, and also against scurvy. In Tibetan medicine, crowberry is used to treat kidney disease and anthrax. In Transbaikalia, an infusion of the herb is used in the treatment of epilepsy and paralysis. Nenets, Khanty and Mansi tie crowberry branches, soaked for half an hour in warm water, to wounds and abrasions for faster healing.

Crow's eye

A perennial herbaceous plant from the linear family, with a creeping rhizome and an erect stem. The leaves are a whorl of four leaves with a greenish-yellow flower at the center. Blooms in June-July. The fruit is a bluish-black berry. The entire plant is poisonous . Crow's eye grows in shady deciduous, mixed and taiga forests, on moist soil.

For medicinal purposes, take a fresh plant. Alcohol tincture 10% in the form of drops is used for headaches, migraines, drowsiness, bronchitis, mental disorder, nervous twitching of the face. The internal use of crow's eye, as a highly poisonous plant, requires great caution! All parts of the plant have different effects: the rhizomes have an emetic effect, the berries have an effect on the heart, and the leaves have an effect on the nervous system. In homeopathy, decoctions of the plant are taken for headaches, increased heartbeat, hearing impairment, and eye diseases. An infusion of 1 kg of dry plants per 10 liters of water is used to spray gardens and vegetable gardens against pests.

Buttercup

Buttercup grows along rivers, in lowlands, near water. Translated from Lat. means "frog". People also call it “night blindness”, “mountain flower” and “pimple”. The mountains of Australia are considered the homeland of Buttercup (I was surprised by this).

In Russia you can find up to 40 species, among which the most common are creeping buttercup, acrid buttercup, multifloral buttercup, poisonous buttercup, and water buttercup.

Cultivated forms of buttercup are used in flower beds, but I would be careful not to do this, since all parts of the plant are poisonous.

However, in small concentrations it is not toxic and can be very effective in relieving many painful conditions. So, fresh buttercup leaves are used to treat joint pain externally. They are also used as a blister plaster for old boils and carbuncles that cannot open, and for other pustular diseases. A decoction of fresh buttercup leaves and flowers, taken in small quantities, treats stomach pain and headaches.

Also, buttercup preparations can stimulate the central nervous system, increase hemoglobin and have a bactericidal and antifungal effect. Traditional medicine does not use buttercup in the production of medicines, however, recent studies have shown its effectiveness in the treatment of skin tuberculosis.

Blueberry

A shrub from the heather family, 80-100 cm high, with gray smooth curved branches. The leaves are obovate, bluish below. The flowers are pink, spherical-bell-shaped. The fruit is a juicy berry, bluish-black, with a bluish bloom. Ripens in July-August. You need to pick the berries carefully, as they are very delicate. Dry in a shaded place with good ventilation. Blueberries grow in damp places, in moss swamps, and in the moss-lichen tundra of the Ural Mountains.

Leaves and berries are a good antiscorbutic remedy and are used in the treatment of diabetes and constipation. A decoction of the branches helps with heart pain; the berries are used in the treatment of giardiasis angiocholecystitis.

Highlander

An annual herbaceous plant from the buckwheat family, with a knotty stem 30-80 cm high. Lanceolate, trumpeted leaves are located opposite. The flowers are pinkish or whitish-green, with a simple corolla-shaped perianth, collected in dense racemes, appear in June-July. Found along the banks of rivers, swamps, ditches, and lakes.

The herb collected during flowering has medicinal value. It is used as a laxative for atonic and spastic constipation, as a hemostatic for hemorrhoidal and uterine bleeding. For headaches, fresh grass is applied to the back of the head. To prepare the infusion, pour 2 tablespoons of the herb into a glass of hot water. Drink a tablespoon 3 times a day.

The most popular meadow flowers and wild plants

Aquilegia vulgaris

Winter-hardy bush, growing up to 80 cm in height with bluish-green leaves, dissected three times. Flowers on tall thin shoots reach a diameter of 5 cm and can be blue or dark purple, as well as pink, white, red, purple, and dark blue.

Interesting! Withstands the harsh Ural climate.

Amaranth spicata

A herbaceous plant growing up to 1 m in height with oblong leaves that become smaller toward the top of the stem. The flowers are yellowish-green, small, densely collected in inflorescences. Amaranth is undemanding to climatic conditions.

Important! In medicine, the plant is used to treat the gastrointestinal tract for colitis, constipation and as a hemostatic agent.

Sweet clover

Biennial herbaceous plant from the legume family, with a branched stem up to 1 m in height. The leaves are small, complexly trifoliate, with serrate-toothed edges and subulate-shaped stipules, arranged alternately. The small yellow flowers are very fragrant, collected in elongated racemes. It grows in fields, meadows, along roads, on slopes, ravines, and fallow lands of the Southern Urals.

The herb used for medicinal purposes is the tops of shoots with leaves and flowers. Collect during flowering. Infusion and decoction of sweet clover has an expectorant, emollient, carminative, and analgesic effect. In scientific medicine, sweet clover herb is used to prepare an extractable green patch and is included in emollient mixtures that accelerate the opening of abscesses and boils. Herbal infusions are prescribed for chronic bronchitis, insomnia, migraines, ailments caused by high blood pressure and menopause, thrombophlebitis, and liver diseases.

Meadow geranium

Meadow geranium is often used in alternative medicine, as well as in classical medicine. It can be added to a herbal mixture, or the grass can also be used independently. Meadow geranium helps to cure these diseases: when there are problems with the digestive system: enteritis, gastritis, diarrhea, etc.; internal bleeding, inflammation of organs; stones in the kidneys; sleep disorders; rheumatism; angina pectoris; sinusitis, pharyngitis; leukemia, other types of cancer; epilepsy; gout; Geranium is soaked in water and the oral mucosa is rinsed with this water. This infusion can also be used to wash wounds with pus, abscesses and ulcers. If you moisten a cotton pad with geranium infusion, you can wipe off eczema with it. Girls use a decoction of geranium for douching for thrush.