Slave Plant
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About
- Common Names
- Slave Plant
- Classification
- Herbaceous, Creeper, Flower
- Description
- This ubiquitous low creeper grows long shoots which bush out in smaller slave plants. The sweet smelling silver florets are useful in treating intestinal parasites, and have been reported to aid liver function.
Ecology
- Rarity
- Common
- Distribution
- sub-tropical to sub-arctic, forests, savanna, and plains.
- Life Cycle
- Perennial, producing small florets, which disperse seeds by wind in late summer. Also produces through advantageous rooting along runners.
Related Plants
Uses
- Cultivation
- none
- Culinary
- none
- Medicinal
- hepatic (flowers), vermifuge (flowers)
- Other
History
- Cultural
- Religious
