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The crushed foliage has a strong musty smell. Below the leaf stems the plant has glands that produce a sticky, sweet-smelling, and edible nectar. The flowers are pink, with a hooded shape, 3 to 4 cm (1 + 1 ⁄ 4 to 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) tall and 2 cm (3 ⁄ 4 in) broad; the flower shape has been compared to a policeman's helmet.
The flowers are arranged in a loose cluster and have ten filaments – five of which are fertile – and five styles. [6] The leaves are pinnate to pinnate-pinnatifid, with hairy stems. [ 7 ] The long seed-pod, shaped like the bill of a stork, bursts open in a spiral when ripe, sending the seeds (which have long tails called awns) into the air.
Flower from India Seedling with two cotyledons and some leaflets. The stem is erect in young plants but becomes creeping or trailing with age. It can hang very low and become floppy. The stem is slender, branching, and sparsely to densely prickly, growing to a length of 1.5 m (5 ft). The erect height of M. pudica usually reaches around ~30 cm ...
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The young flowers are also edible (being made into jelly in the Yukon) [15] and the stems of older plants can be split to extract the edible raw pith. [16] The root can be roasted after scraping off the outside, but often tastes bitter. To mitigate this, the root is collected before the plant flowers and the brown thread in the middle removed. [17]
It is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial producing clumps of stiff, squared stems 2–4 ft (0.61–1.22 m) tall. The leaves are lanceolate and toothed. The inflorescence is a long, dense raceme containing many tubular pink flowers which resemble snapdragons. The open fruit is shaped like a vase and contains four triangular, black seeds.
The individual flowers open in the evening, and stay open for about three days. [8] They produce a stronger scent at night and supplement nectar production during the night. [ 8 ] The flowers are protandrous: on the second night of blooming, the pollen is released, and the stigma develops to its final position by the third night. [ 8 ]
The weed became familiar throughout the country when the KCCI 8 Iowa News Facebook page posted this video, now with over five million views: Wild parsnip is yellow and resembles a wildflower.