Club Root
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About
- Common Names
- Club Root
- Classification
- Herbaceous, Flower
- Description
- This tall grassland plant has a long taproot that forms a bulb at the deepest point. Club Root blooms every three years, and its flowers form a meter long spike of yellow, orange, or peach colour.
Ecology
- Rarity
- Rare
- Distribution
- Sub-tropical to sub-arctic, arid hills, grasslands, deserts, or scrub lands.
- Life Cycle
- Tri-annual, producing tall spike of flowers which produce seeds with flat wings, allowing for wind dispersal.
Related Species
- Some variance within the shape and colour of the flowers exist, but they do not form significant distinct species.
Uses
- Cultivation
- Wild
- Culinary
- The roots are edible and starchy, but lack any agreeable flavour.
- Medicinal
- Flowers - Club root flowers have antiphlogistic, antispasmodic, and aperient properties. They find use in several medicines used in fighting inflamnatory fevers, tremors and constipation.
- Stem - The pithy core of the flower stem is has mild hypnotic qualities, and serves as a vasoconstrictor used for aid of bleeding injuries.
History
- Cultural
- Club root serves as a survival food for some nomadic peoples, and foraging communities.
- Religious
- Club root does not have any any religious significance.
