A prostrate to decumbent, divaricately branched annual herb up to 60 cm long, branches 4-angled. Leaves narrowly elliptical to linear-lanceolate, up to 3(-5) cm long. Flowers in a (1-)3-8-flowered umbel-like corymb, corolla with spreading lobes, white or pinkish. Fruit depressed obovoid or broadly obovoid. Seeds obconical to depressed obconical, laterally compressed.
Herb Effects
Used as a tonic (plant); febrifuge, stomachic and antirheumatic (decoction of whole plant); vermifuge (roots).
Commonly used for poulticing to treat sores and sore eyes (leaves); to treat jaundice and as an ingredient in mixtures used internally to treat fever (plant).
Health Remedies 
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