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What is the name of this grass? Can you describe it in detail.

Family: Euphorbiaceae, Euphorbiaceae.

Morphological features: deciduous shrubs, up to 1-3 meters high, tufted, densely branched, glabrous, buds small, inconspicuous, simple leaves alternate, with stipules but early fall. Leaves elliptic or ovate-square, 1.5-6 cm long, 1-3.5 cm wide, apex mucronate, base cuneate, both surfaces glabrous, leaves entire or undulate, petiole short only 3-7 mm, unisexual dioecious, male flowers in clusters of 3-12 in the axils of the leaves, very small, pedicel short only 2-4 mm, with calyx without petals, calyx light green, stamens 5, filaments longer than the sepals, with a staminodes ovary, female flower solitary, pedicel Female flower solitary, pedicel longer, up to 1 cm, calyx 5, styles 3, each 2-lobed, proximally connate. Capsule trigonous compressed globose, ca. 5 mm in diam., reddish brown when ripe, fruiting pedicel slender, up to 1.5 cm long, sepals persistent, fruit 3-valved, 2 schizocarpals per cleft, 1 seed per carpophore, seeds ovate, yellow-brown, flowering May-July, fruit ripening August-September.

Originality and Distribution: A native of China, it is wildly distributed in North China, and also grows in Northeast, Central, East, Southwest, and Northwest China.

Ecological habit: Extremely wide adaptability. Cold-resistant, drought-resistant, barren. Prefer deep fertile sandy loam, but can also grow well in the arid and barren limestone mountains.

Garden Use: Branches and leaves, dense flowers and fruits, flower color yellow-green, fruit stalks slender, fruit trigonous flattened. Leaves become red in the fall, extremely beautiful, in the garden configuration in the rockery, lawn, riverside, roadside with good ornamental value. Leaves and flowers can be used as medicine.