An erect, leafy, annual herb. Leaves bi-pinnately parted into sharply toothed segments, auricled at base, glabrous; heads many, often double-flowered; ray florets yellow or yellowish white; achenes white.
Herb Effects
Laxative (plant and bark); stimulates secretion of gastric juices and insecticidal (flower); purgative (bark); aromatic, bitter and stomachic (flowers)
Four lyratol esters (plant); 7-glucosides of luteolin, chrysoeriol, quercetin and quercetagetin and luteolin- 7-glucuronide (leaf, ray and disc florets)
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