Red Shining Stars - Cypress Vine

茑萝松（拉丁学名：Quamoclit pennata (Desr.) Boj. ）旋花科一年生缠绕草本植物。单叶互生，羽状深裂，裂片线形，细长如丝。聚伞花序腋生，着花数朵，花从叶腋下生出，花梗长约寸余，上着数朵五角星状小花，鲜红色，花期7—10月。茑萝花清晨开花，太阳落山后，花瓣便向里卷起，成苞状。蒴果卵圆形，果熟期不一致，种子黑色，有棕色细毛。茑萝松可入药，具有清热消肿功效，能治耳疔、痔瘘等。

Cypress Vine (Scientific Latin Name: Quamoclit pennata (Desr.) Boj.) is a twining annual herb in the Convolvulaceae family. Pinnate elongated simple leaf with the alternate arrangement, as long and thin as silk. Verticillaster, axillary, flowers grow from under the axils of leaves, pedicel length of about an inch, with a great number of pentagonal star-shaped bright red flowers, blooming from July to October. It blooms in the morning, and the petals roll inward into a bract after the sun goes down. Ovoid capsule matures in different periods, black seed has brown hairs. It can be used as medicine with the effectof clearing heat and detumescence to treat the furuncle of external auditory meatus, and hemorrhoids complicated by anal fistula, etc.