Canada tickclover seeds «Perseus»

Canada tickclover «Perseus» or owy tick-trefoil, Canadian tick-trefoil / Desmodium canadense L. - is a perennial herbaceous plant of the legume family - Fabaceae up to 120 cm high with straight, multifaceted, branched grayish-green stems, with a shortened, woody, thickened rhizome and tap root system.

The vegetation period in the first year of vegetation from germination to seed ripening is 170 days, from germination to harvesting of raw materials 110-120 days. On transitional plantations, from regrowth to harvesting of raw materials - 70 days, until seed ripening - 110 days. The term of operation of raw crops of the Perseus variety, subject to the cultivation technology, is 6-7 years.

Propagated by seeds, which is characterized by firmness. Winter hardy.

The leaves are alternate, trifoliate, petiolate, broadly lanceolate, entire, pubescent with leathery, persistent stipules, located mainly on the middle and upper parts of the stem. The inflorescence is an elongated, slightly branched, many-flowered raceme.

Butterfly type flowers with bluish-violet or purple corollas. Legumes are flat, segmented, leathery, pubescent, brown, drooping, splitting into 3-5 segments, up to 5 cm long. Seeds are kidney-shaped, smooth, shiny, yellowish-brown.

A dry extract is obtained from the herb desmodium, which has antiviral, anti-inflammatory activity and analgesic effect. Due to the presence of flavonoids, dry extract from the herb of Desmodium Canadian has a pronounced nephroprotective effect, reducing the level of azotemia, increasing diuresis and glomerular filtration rate, reducing protenuria; antioxidant activity; anti-inflammatory, wound healing, antiviral and analgesic activity.