The daunting name of the wolf venom.

Stellera chamaejasme is a perennial herb of the family Daphne and Stellera. It can be up to 40 cm high. The root is cylindrical. Stems tufted, smooth glabrous, lower several woody, brownish or reddish. Simple leaves alternate, densely; narrowly ovate to linear, both surfaces glabrous; petiole very short. Capitate inflorescences terminal, flowers numerous; calyx often Corolla-shaped, white or yellow, purplish red, calyx tube tubular, lobes spreading, rectangular orbicular to Obovate; stamens inserted in throat; superior ovary, upper densely covered with fine hairs, style short, stigma capitate. Fruit ovate, enclosed by the base of perianth tube. It blossoms from May to June. Born in high mountains and grasslands. Distributed in Northeast, North China, Northwest, Southwest and other places.

Wolfsbane

Morphological features:

Herbs perennial, 20-50 cm tall; rhizome woody, stout, Terete, unbranched or branched, surface brown, inner surface yellowish; stems erect, tufted, unbranched, slender, green, sometimes purplish, glabrous, herbaceous, base Lignified, sometimes with brown scales.

Leaves scattered, sparsely opposite or subwhorled, thinly papery, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, sparsely oblong, 12-28 mm long, 3-10 mm wide, apex acuminate or acute, sparsely obtuse, base rounded to obtuse or cuneate, green above, light green to grayish green below, margin entire, not retrorse or slightly retrorse, midrib flattened above, raised below, lateral veins 4-6 pairs, second pair extending straight to 23 pairs of leaf blade Both sides are obvious. Petiole short, ca. 1.1 mm, base articulate, flattened above or slightly sulcate.

Wolfsbane

Flowers white, yellow to purplish, fragrant, many flowered head, terminal, globose; with green leaflike involucral bracts; without pedicel; calyx tube slender, 9-11 mm long, with distinct longitudinal veins, base slightly dilated, glabrous, lobes 5, ovate-oblong, 2-4 mm long, ca. 2 mm wide, apex rounded, sparsely truncate, often with purplish red reticulate veins Stamens in 2 whorls, lower whorl inserted above the middle of calyx tube, upper whorl inserted in the throat of calyx tube, anthers slightly protruding, filaments very short, anthers yellow, linear-elliptic, ca. 1.5 mm long; disk developed on one side, linear, ca. 1.8 mm long, ca. 0.2 mm wide, apex slightly 2-lobed Ovary elliptic, almost sessile, ca. 2 mm, 1.2 mm in diam., distally yellowish filiform pilose, style short, stigma capitate, tip slightly yellow pilose.

Wolfsbane

Fruit conical, 5 mm long, ca. 2 mm in diam., gray-white pilose distally or apically, surrounded by persistent calyx tube; seed coat membranous, lavender. The florescence is from April to June and the fruiting period is from July to September.

Economy: Stellera chamaejasme is more toxic and can kill insects; the root can also extract industrial alcohol, and the root and stem bark can be made into paper.

Medicinal: root medicine, with expectorant, anti-accumulation, pain-relieving function, external application can treat scabies.