Difference between revisions of "Baby Cheer"

Latest revision as of 20:28, 5 June 2025

Common Names: Baby Cheer, Ist Seju (Waejir)
Classification: Flower
Description: Baby cheer is a low herbaceous plant with a lengthy main root which runs underground with several plants above ground attached to the same runner. The plant produces pale yellow flowers with five radial petals, one per stem. The leaves are small, round and in whorls of five leaves every few centimetres along the stems.

Rarity: Common
Distribution: Baby Cheer is found in subtropical through subarctic wooded areas with light ground cover.
Life Cycle: Baby Cheer flowers in several cycles throughout the spring and summer seasons. The flowers produce bundles of small seeds attached to short stems with tufts that enable wind dispersal. The plant also propagates through the underground runners.

Cultivation

Baby Cheer is common enough that it is not cultivated intentionally.

Culinary

Baby Cheer has no particular culinary use.

Medicinal

Analgesic, Carminative, Euphoriant - The roots are used for teething pain and as a gas reducer, and to fight gripe in infants.

Cultural: Baby Cheer flowers are often gifted to new mothers during the late stages of pregnancy. Gifting the flowers too early can been seen as a bad omen for the birth, as a form of premature celebration.
Religious: Baby Cheer has no religious significance.

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 :*Analgesic, Carminative, Euphoriant - The roots are used for teething pain and as a gas reducer, and to fight gripe in infants.