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In traditional Chinese medicine, both O. japonicus plants and tubers are known as mai men dong (Chinese: 麥門冬).Tubers are used as the cardinal herb for yin deficiency. . According to the "Chinese Herbal Medicine Materia Medica", the herb is sweet, slightly bitter, and slightly cold; enters the heart, lung, and stomach channels; nourishes the yin of the stomach, spleen, heart, and lungs ...
Ophiopogon (lilyturf) [2] is a genus of evergreen perennial plants native to warm temperate to tropical East, Southeast, and South Asia. [1] [3] Despite their grasslike appearance, they are not closely related to the true grasses, the Poaceae.
In the Kafue Flats region of Zambia, it is the dominant plant of eutrophic, slow-moving waters. It forms fairly monocultural stands with few other species, but shares this habitat with the tiny free-floating aquatic carnivorous plant Utricularia gibba subsp. exoleta in sheltered areas where the waters are calm.
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Ophiopogon planiscapus is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae. It is a small evergreen perennial growing to 20 cm (8 in) tall by 30 cm (12 in)wide. [1] It grows from short rhizomes, and bears tufts of grasslike leaves, from which purple or white flowers emerge in racemes held on short stems above the leaves.
Liriope muscari is a species of flowering plant from East Asia. Common names in English include big blue lilyturf, lilyturf, border grass, and monkey grass. This small herbaceous perennial has grass-like evergreen foliage and lilac-purple flowers which produce single-seeded berries on a spike in the fall. It is invasive to North America and ...
Monkey grass is a common name for several plants used in landscaping and may refer to: Plants in the genus Liriope Ophiopogon japonicus , native to China, India, Japan, and Vietnam
Black-grass, British common name for Alopecurus myosuroides, a damaging weed in wheat crops; Black-grass rush or blackgrass, American common name for Juncus gerardii, a salt marsh plant used for facing dykes; Black mondo grass, a cultivar of Ophiopogon planiscapus