In what conditions the mother and stepmother grows, remember when and how it blooms and figure out what

In what conditions the mother and stepmother grows, remember when and how it blooms and figure out what advantages the mother and stepmother give to the fact that her flower-bearing shoots are with small leaves, and the leaves of the rosette are large.

Mother-and-stepmother is a plant unpretentious to growing conditions, it is distributed throughout Europe, you can see this plant in North. Africa, also brought to America, etc. It chooses often moist clay soils, but it can grow on other soils (along the banks of various reservoirs, in fields, wastelands, etc.). It blooms in spring, the leaves-scales have a protective function, protecting the flower stem from various etiologies of damage, they do not cover the flower itself (it is quite large and bright, provokes insect pollination). The leaves of the rosette perform a completely different function (the process of photosynthesis, and, accordingly, the storage of nutrients), therefore it is beneficial for them to have a large surface.