A perennial reaching a height of 12 to 15 inches with a spread of 24 to 30 inches. It has bronze-green foliage with yellow petaless flowers with a red eye on top of long stems. The flowers are small, yellow, and solitary, on terminal peduncles.
Helps to overcome nausea and vomiting by its stimulating effect on the salivary glands, dysentery, ease the pain of toothache, in non-mercurial ptyalism, and in inflammations of the mouth and throat, gouty and rheumatic affections, in uric acid gravel, in dropsical effusions, and even to remove intestinal worms.