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Atractylodes lancea
Also called White Atractylodes
Southern Tsangshu (Atractylodes lancea) is a perennial herb in the daisy family, grown mainly for its rhizome (underground stem), which is used as the Chinese herbal medicine cang zhu. Grow it in well-drained soil in sun or light shade, and keep it from waterlogging.
Atractylodes lancea (syns. Atractylodes chinensis, Atractylodes japonica, Atractylodes ovata; Japanese: オケラ, romanized: okera, Eastern ukera, ukira) is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to Vietnam, most of China, Korea, the southern Russian Far East, and Japan. It is the source of cāng zhú (蒼朮), a Chinese herbal medicine sold to people suffering from a variety of ailments.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
