Purist

The genus Stachys, or stachis, are dwarf shrubs, herbaceous annuals and perennials, which are part of the Lamiaceae family. "Stakhis" means "ear", the plant is so named because its inflorescences are in the form of an ear. Homeland - Asia Minor and Balkan territories, then Chistets spread across European and Asian spaces, and finally it was domesticated. This genus includes more than three hundred varieties, they are found wild almost everywhere, excluding the Australian continent and New Zealand. The culture is cultivated as decorative and medicinal.

Cleaner description and characteristics

Fragments above the ground, densely pubescent, including leaflets. Therefore, such vegetation is also called "sheep ears". A bush can grow up to one meter. Leaflets are opposite, whole or with denticles along the edges. False whorls are composed of flowers, forming inflorescences in the form of an ear. Flowers can be colored purple, yellow, lilac, white or pink. The fruit is a nut, consisting of three faces, elongated or in the form of an egg.

Seed cultivation

Sowing time.

The herbaceous purse is propagated by seeds, cuttings, dividing a bush, planting tubers. Seed germination is good. Sowing is carried out in late winter or early spring in a soil substrate. After sowing, watering is carried out, the pot is covered with polyethylene and placed in a warm place. Seedlings will emerge four weeks later or earlier. Seedlings dive after the growth of the first pair of true leaves.

Landing under the open sky.

Plants are planted in open conditions at the end of May, and repeated frosts should no longer threaten. For planting, a place with good illumination or shaded is selected. The soil can be almost any, but the plant feels more comfortable on rocky or sandy soil with an alkaline or neutral reaction. Do not forget that the soil must be water-absorbing without fail.

The interval between the pits for planting is fifteen to twenty cm. At the bottom of the pits, drainage from pebbles, pebbles or sand is laid into coarse grain. On top of the drainage is covered with soil mixed with humus. After that, the plants, together with the earthen lump, roll over into the pits. Seedlings must be watered abundantly.

Cleaner care

Planting and growing a chitosene is pretty simple. All that is required is to regularly water, weed and loosen the soil. Hilling is carried out before flowering. Watering is done in moderation, because stachis does not respond well to stagnant liquid in the roots. Therefore, the plant needs to be watered only in a long dry time, otherwise the leaves may fall off. They feed the purse with manure, which is quail. It is applied to the soil only once during the whole season.

In order to avoid the displacement of other vegetation by stachis and uncontrolled spreading throughout the garden, it is necessary to systematically prune its shoots. When sowing a chalice, do not forget that it will not be easy to remove it later, because it spreads by self-seeding. To avoid self-seeding, all flower shoots are cut when buds are formed. Keep in mind that the inflorescences are not decorative, but they can worsen the appearance of the flower bed, for this reason, flower growers with experience advise cutting them off without fail.

A culture can grow in one place for several years. However, over time, the middle of the bush becomes empty. Therefore, once every three to four years, young rosettes are planted in the center of the bush.

Harmful insects and diseases.

The plant has a strong immunity to diseases and harmful insects.

Plant after flowering period

Perennial perennial has good resistance to frost periods. However, if forecasts say that in the winter season there will be little snow and a lot of frost, then a shelter is being built for the bushes with the help of spruce branches. Do not forget that stachis may die in the spring if its roots are in the water for a long time, which appeared from the melting of snow. For this reason, when choosing a site for planting, be sure to remember this.

Varieties

Stachys lanata, or Byzantine, or Woolen, or Stachys byzantiana.

Florists grow only a small number of varieties, but this type is the most popular. This stakhis comes from the north-west of the Iranian and Turkish territories, from the Transcaucasian and South European parts of the Russian expanses. This rhizome perennial grows up to twenty to sixty cm. Shoots consist of four faces, grow vertically, covered with a small number of leaves. The leaves are thickened, oblong, linear or in the form of a spade, narrowed at the base. Their outer side is pubescent, covered with white felt. The flowers are small, lilac-pink or lilac in color, they make up plump inflorescences in the form of an ear. Cultivation of this species began in 1782. The most popular variety is Silver Carpet. The bush grows up to fifteen cm. The bushes form a thick, silvery rug.

Stachys annua.

This species grows wild in the Asia Minor, European, West Siberian territories. Shoots are simple or branched, grow up to fifteen to thirty-five cm. Their bottom is bare, the top is shortly pubescent. Lower leaves with denticles, elongated, wedge-shaped at the base, upper ones with teeth, pointed, lanceolate, without petioles. The inflorescence is elongated, spike-shaped, contains flowers of white-yellow color. The fruit is a nut. This plant is a good honey plant.

Lesnoy chisel (Stachys sylvatica).

The wild-growing variety is found in the Caucasian, Central Asian, Russian, Turkish, European and Chinese territories. The bush grows up to thirty-five to one hundred and twenty cm. The shoots are upright, covered with soft hairs. The leaves growing on the stems have denticles, are presented in the form of an egg or heart, sit on petioles, are pointed at the top. The leaves, located at the top, are elongated, solid, without petioles, the outer side is painted in a pale green color, and the inner side is green-grayish. Inflorescences are rather elongated, contain six to eight flowers.

Stachys palustris, or Chernozyabennik, or Zhivuchka, or Kolutik, or Kolosnitsa.

This variety can be found wild in Turkish, European, Russian, from Iranian to Chinese territory. The bush grows up to one hundred and twenty cm. Aerial fragments are densely pubescent with elongated hairs with roughness. The lower leaves are pointed, their edges are in a small denticle, elongated, round at the base or in the form of a heart. The upper leaves are egg-shaped, lanceolate, elongated, sharp, whole, without petioles. The inflorescence is spicate, contains six to ten flowers of lilac-purple color.

Chisel "Large-flowered" (Stachys grandiflora).

This species can be found wild in the Asia Minor and Caucasian territories. This perennial grows up to twenty to thirty cm. The leaves are located on long petioles, have edges in the form of denticles, they are round or in the shape of a heart. A peduncle without leaves grows up to fifty cm, the inflorescence-head consists of large flowers. This variety has several decorative subspecies. "Alba" - white flowers. "Superba" - flowers can be from purple to pink.

Stachys officinalis.

This Eurasian variety is widespread. The bush grows to fifty-one hundred cm. Leaves with denticles, elongated, at the base in the form of a heart. The upper leaves are almost without petioles, the leaves at the roots are long-petiolate. The inflorescence is spicate, contains flowers with hairs of dark pink or purple color.

Also, gardeners cultivate these varieties of chitose: fluffy, alpine, lavender, narrow-leaved, straight, field, Cretan, German.

Purist: benefit and harm

Among the large number of varieties of this culture, there are those that stand out for their medicinal qualities. They are quite common in non-traditional medicine. For example, "Woolly" is not a pharmacopoeial vegetation, however, in frequent cases it is used by folk medicine, since it has hypotensive, antispasmodic, cardiotonic and hemostatic effects. Preparations that are prepared from the purifier (tincture, decoction or dry extract) treat colds, tuberculosis, mastopathy, nervous disorders, eczema, scrofula, and also lower blood pressure.

"Lesnoy" is used in gynecology, in official and unofficial medicine. Preparations made from this plant have a strong hemostatic effect and are used for bleeding of the uterus. Preparations obtained from aerial fragments of the bush, heal wounds and are used against inflammation, as well as they treat hemorrhoids, ulcers, eczema, purulent wounds and cuts. In addition, culture is an ingredient in preparations that improve the blood supply to the brain, they are used to treat epilepsy, hysteria and fainting.

Do not forget that there are also contraindications. You can not use drugs based on purity for nephritis, hypertension, hepatitis, bronchial asthma, convulsions, angina pectoris, as well as children, pregnant women and breastfeeding. It is forbidden to be treated with the help of this culture for people with individual intolerance.