阿拉伯婆婆纳 英语简介

Arab is a nation, a country and a “world”, it’s one of the cradles of ancient civilizations. And it features variety of characteristics. Here I will introduce a not precious nor famous but beautiful creature from Arab:
T h e V e r o n i c a P e r s i c a P o i r
Arab Speedwell阿拉伯婆婆纳
From Arab origin, it’s a kind of flower growing worldwide now. look at the pictures. It’s the kind of flower that has unusual colors like blue and purple(most of them are purple). It has four ovate
（卵状的）radioactive petals and the center of the flower is white. Its two stamens（花蕊）are also composed from purple and white That’s because it is so small that it had the color purple and it nee dn’t to reflect the light from the sun to keep itself alive. How small they are??? Their corollas are only 4 to 6 millimeters long! Also, it has soft villus（绒毛）on its calyxes（萼片）and stems（茎）.
They are always 10 to 50 centimeters tall
and bloom from March to May. Most of them
are annual herbs（一年生草本植物）or Biennial
herbs（两年生草本植物）.
It could adapt the environment well
and grown in many places such as East
China so it’s always a weed in early
spring, eastern China. It grows in
countries or beside to the roads.
It also has some particular uses in Chinese medicine. All parts of the plant, its flowers, villus, calyxes, stems and roots can be medicines! It can cure rheumatism（风湿）, kidney vacuity（肾虚）, and malaria （疟疾）.
All in all, some people may not like it, especially sanitation workers. But I thought it a really beautiful kinds of flower and you could love it too!
Class 5 No.17 Zimeng Liu 刘子萌。