Corn Silk (Zea Mays) is an annual large herbaceous plant of the Cereal family up to 3 meters. The stem is thick, hollow. The leaves are alternate, wide, and linearly lanceolate. Inflorescences are dioecious. Male flowers are collected in a large panicle at the ends of the stems, female flowers - on the cob in the axils of the leaves of the same individuals. The fruit is a yellow or green-yellow compressed kidney-shaped caryopsis, protected by a greenish leaf-shaped wrapper. It blooms in July - August, ripens in September - October.