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Perennial herb, 0.2-0.4 m high; stems and petioles angled and striate, villous to scarcely pubescent from base upwards with white multicellular and glandular hairs. Leaves alternate; leaflets ovate to obovate-oblong, sessile or with a petiolule, bases cuneate-rounded, apices blunt, glabrous above. Stipules half-lunate, deeply-toothed, sparsely hairy at base. Inflorescence a globose-ovoid head, axis hairy; bracts rhomboid-ovate; bracteoles obovate-orbicular, hairy on outer surface and margins. Flowers subsessile, actinomorphic; floral tube ellipsoid, glabrous; sepals ovate-elliptic, concave on inner surface, glabrous; stamens 18; filaments filiform; carpels 2; styles 2; stigma penicillate. Flowering time May-July. Fruit 4-angled, ellipsoid.
Perennial from a caudex-like rhizome; stems 2–7 dm; lower lvs numerous and well developed, with usually 7–17 lfls, the upper lvs progressively reduced; lfls ovate to rotund, 5–20 mm, with 3–7 sharp teeth on each side; heads several on elongate peduncles, short-ovoid to globose, 8–20 mm; fls subtended by ciliate bracts, the lower ones perfect or staminate, the upper pistillate; sep green or brown, 2.5–5 mm, the inner pair broader than the outer; stamens numerous, the long filaments drooping; pistils 2; mature hypanthium 5 mm, very rough between the wings; achenes 2, semi-ovoid; 2n=28, 56. Native of Eurasia, established as a weed along roadsides and in fields and waste places here and there in our range. May, June. (Poterium sanguisorba)
Herb, 0.5 m, stems faintly soft-hairy. Leaves 5-9 cm long. Leaflets 3 or 4 pairs, 1.5-2.5 cm long. Heads globose, up to 1.5 cm diam., with up to 15 crowded flowers, peduncle up to 10 cm long. Flowers sessile, bisexual (rarely male) in lower part, female in upper part of head. Hypanthium 4-ribbed. Sepals imbricate. Stamens 10-30 in male and bisexual flowers, filaments up to 8 mm. Pistils 2. Achenes glabrous, pericarp bony in upper part.
A perennial herb. It can be grown as an annual. It forms clumps. It grows about 30 cm high. The leaves are produced in pairs about 25 mm apart. The leaves are small and round and deep green. They have teeth around the edge. The leaves have the smell of cucumber. The slender side stems droop giving a feather like appearance. The central stalks have reddish-pink berry like flowers. These have long purple stamens.
