Glechoma grandis
StarGlechoma grandis
Synonyms: Glechoma hederacea var. grandis, Glechoma hederacea f. albiflorens, Glechoma hederacea subsp. grandis, Nepeta glechoma var. grandis
Western Herbalism Properties
Traditional Uses
In Chinese folk and traditional medicine the Glechoma group (used as Lian Qian Cao) employs the whole plant, taken as a decoction, to promote urination and clear damp-heat, treating urinary stones (stranguria), jaundice, swellings, abscesses, and traumatic injuries (Zhongyao Da Cidian; Wang et al., 2016).
Botanical Description
Glechoma grandis is a low, creeping perennial herb of the mint family, closely allied to ground ivy. It produces slender, four-angled stems that trail and root at the nodes, forming spreading mats, with ascending flowering shoots. The opposite leaves are long-petioled and kidney-shaped to rounded-cordate with bluntly toothed (crenate) margins, and the foliage is faintly aromatic when bruised. The two-lipped, tubular flowers are blue to violet, borne in small axillary clusters in spring; the calyx is tubular and ribbed and the fruit comprises four smooth nutlets. Native to eastern Asia, it grows in moist woodland, shaded banks, grassy slopes, and disturbed ground.
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