Plantagenet seedlings are tender stems and leaves of Kochia scoparia, panicum miliaceum, with a height of about 50- 150cm. Stems erect, much branched, light green or reddish, pubescent. Leaves alternate, sessile, narrowly lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 2-7 cm long and 3-7 mm wide, short and sharp at the top, wedge-shaped at the base, entire, green and hairless at the upper part and light green and hairless or pubescent at the lower part.
Morphological characteristics:
There are usually three main veins, and the upper leaves of the stem are smaller with a midvein. Flowers solitary or two in leaf axils, integrating sparse spikes; Sometimes there is rust-colored fluff under the flowers; Flowers are small, bisexual or female; Yellow-green, perianth segments 5, subglobose, connate at the base, triangular lateral protrusions or wings on the back of fruit, sometimes nearly fan-shaped; Stamens 5, filaments filiform; Style is short, stigma 2, filiform. Utricle oblate, pericarp free from seeds, hidden in perianth. 1 seed, oblate, dark brown. The flowering period is from June to September, and the fruiting period is from August to June.