WorldFloraDB - Penthorum sedoides

Characteristics

Stems frequently pink or reddish, especially with age, 1-6(-8) dm, stipitate glands hyaline or reddish brown and often black-or purple-tipped. Leaves: petiole absent or 1-10 mm; blade 2-18(-24) × 0.5-4(-5.5) cm, glabrous or sparsely stipitate-glandular abaxially and ad-axially, hairs black-or purple-tipped. Inflorescences secund, 2-7-branched, each branch (6-)10-25(-30)-flowered. Pedicels 0.5-3 mm. Flowers: hypanthium 0.5-1.5 × 1.5-3.5 mm; sepals persistent, erect or spreading, unequal, 0.8-2 × 0.4-1 mm, margins entire or serrulate with 1-4 gland-tipped teeth per side; filaments 1-2 mm; anthers 0.7-1 mm; pistil 3-4 mm; stigmas often purple with age. Seeds 0.5-0.7 × 0.2-0.3 mm, tubercles reddish or pinkish. 2n = 18.

More

Erect, 2–7 dm, simple or branched above, glabrous below, stipitate-glandular in the infl; lvs lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 5–10 cm, sharply serrate, acuminate at both ends; cymes 2–8 cm; sep oblong-lanceolate; capsule 5–6 mm wide; 2n=18. Marshes and muddy soil; Me. to Ont. and Minn., s. to Fla. and Tex. July–Sept.

A herb. It is fleshy and has underground runners. It grows 1 m tall. The leaves are alternate and they have short leaf stalks. The flowers are small with many together at the ends of the branches.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

herb

Growth support

-

Foliage retention

deciduous

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

-

Spread

-

Mature width (meter)

-

Mature height (meter)

1.0

Root system

-

Rooting depth (meter)

0.4

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

-

Fruiting months

-

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

-

Environment

It grows in wet low ground such as flood plains and ditches.

More

Low wet ground. Ditches and swamps.

Light
Soil humidity
Soil texture
Soil acidity
Soil nutriment	-
Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

The fresh leaves are acid but used as a potherb or to spice up salads. The dried leaves are used to make tea.

Uses	medicinal potherb spice tea
Edible	leaves
Therapeutic use	Cough Medicine (seed), Astringent (unspecified), Catarrh (unspecified), Cholera (unspecified), Demulcent (unspecified), Diarrhea (unspecified), Laxative (unspecified), Gastritis (unspecified), Piles (unspecified)
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.

Mode	seedlings
Germination duration (days)	-
Germination temperacture (C°)	-
Germination luminosity	-
Germination treatment	-
Minimum temperature (C°)	-35
Optimum temperature (C°)	-
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-