萱草,为百合科多年生草本经济作物,俗称黄花菜,是采摘黄花含苞欲放的花蕾,蒸制晒干而成。明代医药学家李时珍曾说“:今东人采其花晒干而货之,名为黄花菜。”郭沫若曾说:金黄色的黄百合,一般就叫金针,作为菜比作黄花,大家相识更深。”又因其生态习性近似萱草(野生金针),因而又名 Hemerocallis, Liliaceae perennial herbaceous cash crops, commonly known as day lily, is picking the yellow buds buds, steamed and dried. Li Shizhen, a Ming Dynasty pharmacist, once said: “The people of East China take their flowers and dry them and call them the day-lily.” Guo Moruo once said: golden yellow lily, usually called lily, Deeper. And because of its ecological habits similar to Hemerocallis (wild lily), and hence the name