An annual grows to 30-60 cm tall. Stems much branched at the base, procumbent. Leaves alternate, orbicular-reniform, 3-6 cm wide, cordate, with 5~9 shallow dentate-crenate lobes; petioles 7-20 cm long. Flowers 3-6-clustered in the axils; pedicels 1~3 cm long; sepals 5, its lobes deltoid; petals 4-5 mm long, if at all longer than the sepals. Seed carpels 8-11, commonly 10, glabrous or hairy, rounded on the back, pubescent.

Demulcent (leaves, seed)

Plants for a Future

In the treatment of inflammations of the digestive and urinary systems, as a poultice for bruises, inflammations, piles etc (leaves); in the treatment of coughs, bronchitis, ulceration of the bladder and haemorrhoids (seed)