A succulent perennial plant. Its round stem grows 1 to 1-1/2 feet high from a creeping, jointed rootstock. The leaves are glabrous, ovate or broadly elliptical, and finely serrate. The small blue flowers grow in axillary spikes from May to August.

Alterative, antiscorbutic, very mildly diuretic, emmenagogue and febrifuge (whole plant)

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In the treatment of scurvy, impurity of the blood etc (leaves); as a politic on burns, ulcers, whitlows, for intestinal disorders and anemia (plant)