Baby Cheer

About

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.

Ecology

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.

Uses

Cultivation

Culinary

Medicinal

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

Other

History

Cultural

Religious