plant description
- General - perennial, almost hairless plant with a
clump of erect leafy stems
- Leaves - opposite with lance-shaped toothed leaflets
- Flowers - pale pink, tubular, grow in three-forked
terminal heads
parts used
- roots, rhizomes (surface roots)
harvest
- roots and rhizomes are lifted in 2nd year after leaves
have dried off and used fresh, dried, or distilled
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