Flowering Snake-plant
Flowering Snake-plant Plant Attributes
Chinese Name: Guo Tang She, Also Known As: Water Shield, Beng grass, Water Dragon, Pig Fatten Grass, etc. Latin Name: Ludwigia adscendens Family and Genus: Onagraceae, Ludwigia Distribution: Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, and other places in ChinaFlowering Snake-plant Plant Introduction
Snake-plant, a floating or creeping herb, is hairless, with each node of its floating stem often having a cylindrical white buoyant sac, and it has many thread-like roots. The leaves are alternate, obovate to oblong-obovate; the flowers are solitary in the leaf axils, with long peduncles; the petals are white, pale yellow at the base, obovate; the fruit is linear-cylindrical, hairless or pubescent; the seeds are numerous, rectangular, and smooth. The flowering period is summer and autumn. The dried whole herb can be used as medicine, with the effects of clearing heat, diuretic, reducing swelling, and detoxifying.
Flowering Snake-plant Photo Album
1. Snake-plant Photo One
2. Snake-plant Photo Two
3. Snake-plant Photo Three