A bushy shrub with many ascending stems. Stems woody at base, leaves narrow and arrow shaped with a pair of narrow spreading basal lobes, and with numerous thin branches with terminal very slender clusters of distant whorls of tiny greenish- white flowers. Flowers very small, flower stalk lengthening in fruit.

Laxative alternative, tonic, and anti rheumatic (root)

Plants for a Future

In skin disease; in the treatment of bloody dysentery (plant juice); chewed to relieve aches in the throat (fresh tuber)