Norichnik is a knobby melliferous plant, which is a poisonous perennial herbaceous medicinal plant of the Noricidae family. It is a good honey plant. Has other names: “knotted norichnik” or “scrofula”.
The content of the article
- 1 Distribution and Description
- 1.1 Varieties
- 2 Significance for agriculture
- 3 Honey productivity
Distribution and Description
It is found only in the wild in the European part of Russia, Siberia, the Urals, Ukraine and Europe.
It grows like a weed in coniferous and mixed forests, on the edges of bushes, in grassy thickets of abandoned arable lands, steppe plains, in the mountains.
The plant has a powerful developed tuberous root system with outgrowths (because of this feature, it was called knobby or knobby). Erect ribbed stems up to 120 centimeters are distinguished by a brownish color. Large leaves of a dark green hue, oblong with pointed tips, opposite. The grass itself emits a characteristic pungent odor.
Greenish inconspicuous small flowers are collected in small loose paniculate half-umbels. The fruit is a capsule with small dark brown seeds that provide good self-seeding.
The flowering period is the second half of summer, from June to August.
Varieties
Noricum knobby is one of the varieties of perennial grasses of the genus Norichnikovy family.
There are 90 types of norichniks in total. In our territory, knotty and winged varieties are also widespread. All these plants are well visited by bees.
Significance for agriculture
Due to their biological characteristics, the norichniks are used by some species of butterflies as a forage plant.
Important. For small and large ruminants, the grass is poisonous and dangerous!
The knobby variety is prized as a medicinal plant and is widely used in folk medicine.
Honey productivity
During the flowering period, the honey plant plentifully secretes nectar and pollen – bees actively visit flowering small inflorescences.
From one hectare of plantations, the weed gives up to 620 kilograms of sugar in nectar.
In beekeeping manuals it is said that low-aromatic redneck honey has a greenish tint and a good pleasant taste. But it is worth noting that this wild-growing grass grows like a weed and is not widely cultivated in large areas. And the period of its flowering falls on the mass flowering of other summer plants.
Monofloral honey variety is not obtained in our area, since all the collected nectar is mixed with herbs.
