What is this plant and what is its scientific name?

sealwort

Latin scientific name Polygonatum sibiricum

Don't call it dragon title, bletilla striata, rabbit bamboo, hanging beads, chicken lattice, rice breast, soil bamboo, deer bamboo, seven leaves and one flower, to save the poor.

Rhizomes are cylindrical, and one end of internodes is thick and the other end is thin due to the enlargement of nodules.

sealwort

sealwort

There are short branches at the thick end (Polygonatum sibiricum is recorded in traditional Chinese medicine), with a diameter of 1~2 cm. The height of the stem is 50~90 cm, or it can reach 1 m or more, and sometimes it climbs. Impellers are raw, 4-6 in each circle, strip-shaped and needle-shaped, 8- 15cm long and (4-) 6- 16mm wide, and the tips are rolled or bent into hooks.

Inflorescence usually has 2~4 flowers, which are umbrella-shaped. The total length of pedicel is 1~2 cm, and the length of pedicel is (2.5~)4~ 10 mm, which is drooping. Bracts are located at the base of pedicels, membranous, subulate or strip-lanceolate, 3~5 mm long, veins1; Perianth is milky white to light yellow, with a total length of 9~ 12 mm, the middle part of perianth tube is slightly constricted, and the lobes are about 4 mm long; Filaments are 0.5 ~ 1 mm long and anthers are 2 ~ 3 mm long. The ovary is about 3 mm long and the style is 5~7 mm long.

Berry is 7~ 10 mm in diameter, black and has 4~7 seeds. The flowering period is May-June and the fruiting period is August-September.

Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Gansu (East), Henan, Shandong, Anhui (East) and Zhejiang (Northwest). Under forests, thickets or shady slopes, 800-2800 meters above sea level. North Korea, Mongolia and eastern Siberia, Russia also has it.