Sunflower hairy
The hairy sunflower is one of the plants of the family called Cistaceae; in Latin the name of this plant will be as follows: Helianthenum hirsutum (Thuill.) Merat.
As for the name of the hairy sunflower family itself, in Latin it will be like this: Cistaceae Juss.
Description of the hairy sunflower
Sunflower hairy is a perennial herbaceous plant, the height of which will fluctuate between fifteen and forty centimeters. Such a plant will be endowed with stems that grow woody at the bottom, which will be branched, they can be either prostrate or erect, and they will also be covered with dense appressed hairs, oval or elliptical in shape. In addition, they will be pubescent with short hairs. Also, the stems of the hairy sunflower are endowed with opposite leaves, the length of which will be about three centimeters, and the width will not even reach one centimeter. The flowers of this plant are painted in bright yellow tones and are collected in a sparse brush-curl; there are about four to fifteen such flowers in total; they are quite large in size, about two centimeters in diameter. The flowers of the hairy sunflower are endowed with five rounded petals and five sepals. The fruit of this plant is a hairy, oval-spherical capsule in shape. The seeds of the hairy sunflower are dark brown in color, their length is about one to two millimeters, such seeds are covered with cells.
This plant blooms from the second half of May to the month of June. Under natural conditions, the hairy sunflower is found in the Crimea, the Caucasus, Belarus, Ukraine, the central and southern parts of the European part of Russia. For growth, this plant prefers hills, indigenous river banks, light pine forests, edges of pine forests, dry and floodplain meadows. It should be noted that this plant can only be harvested in limited quantities, due to the need to protect it.
It is noteworthy that the name of this genus was derived from Greek words, which translated mean sun and flower. Silky flowers will seem to greet the sunrise and for this reason turn after the sun, but by noon such flowers will fall off. However, despite such a short flower life, intensive formation of new hairy sunflower flowers will occur. Purely externally, such flowers will be very similar to rosehip flowers.
As for the propagation of this plant, its main method is cuttings. To do this, you will need to take pieces of hairy sunflower stems approximately six to eight centimeters long in the month of June. It is necessary to root such elements in a greenhouse, while excessive waterlogging is extremely undesirable. You can also propagate the hairy sunflower through shoots, which will be sprinkled at the nodes in the spring, and by the end of the summer they will already form roots and can be separated. Gardeners recommend using just such methods of propagating this plant, because the hairy sunflower quite often requires renewal.
Description of the medicinal properties of the hairy sunflower
The hairy sunflower is endowed with very valuable healing properties, and the presence of such medicinal properties should be explained by the content of helianthemide glycoside and tannins in the composition of this plant.
An aqueous decoction prepared from the herb of the sunflower pilosa is indicated for use in various diseases that were caused by heavy lifting.
