The lesser celandine is a perennial, herbaceous plant, the plant height reached 10-20 cm. The procumbent to ascending, hollow stem is bare. The leaves are undivided heart-to kidney-shaped, often greasy, shiny and the leaf edge notched, standing on long stems.
Striking are its detached and long-stalked golden yellow flowers, each with eight to eleven (As an exception to the buttercup species) petals, which are in the botanical sense blumenblattartige nectar leaves. Their conspicuous color attracts the flowering season (March to May), many insects found at the base of the flower nectars. After contact of the numerous stamens are pollination. Next there are the 3-5 cm in diameter, large, star-shaped flowers of three, rarely five kelchartigen outer bracts.
The lesser celandine may also have some of the thickened club-shaped roots (corms) or increase with reserve substances enriched Brutknöllchen (bulbils) arising in the axils of the leaves, vegetative. These are mostly in old perennial plants found. The distribution of seeds is about ants.
Traditional healing claimed versus suspected toxicity
In the majority of herbal books is drawn to the high vitamin C content of the plant. Several authors from the wild herbs scene to emphasize that they consume the lesser celandine regularly in early spring. It is likely, therefore, postulated that the toxicity of protoanemonin before the appearance of yellow flowers is actually very low or completely insignificant.
For sensitive persons, it is advisable to avoid the plant either in whole or groping cautiously to the tolerated dose. Experience shows that some people love the plant food and intuitive as they hate others. It is advisable not to consume the plant against the "Rat" of the body.
Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scharbockskraut
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