Common along marshy areas An ornamental plant. The plant is useful as a remedy for burning sensation, anorexia, diarrhea, knee joint pain, fever and swelling.
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An ornamental plant. The plant is useful as a remedy for burning sensation, anorexia, diarrhea, knee joint pain, fever and swelling.
Prostrate herbs, rooting × at nodes. Leaves simple, 1-3 0.8-1.5 cm, obovate-spathulate or oblanceolate, sometimes elliptic or cuneiform, apex rounded or obtuse, base cuneate, margin sharply serrate above the middle, fleshy; petiole to 8 mm long, decurrent. Flowers 5-merous, sessile, aggregated in axillary, globose-capitate or elongate, cylindric, stalked spikes, 1-2.5 cm long when mature and 6-9 mm across; peduncle 1.5-6 cm long; bracts small, closely imbricate. Calyx cupular, deeply 2-cleft; lobes lanceolate. Corolla pink to white, 2-2.5 mm long, salver-form, 2-lipped, upper lip 2-lobed, emarginate, lower 3-lobed. Stamens 4, included. Drupe ca. 2 mm long, enclosing two, 1-celled pyrenes.