CULPEPER'S COMPLETE HERBAL

PURPLE MONEY WILLOW-HERB

Description. This is another weak, trailing, and small recumbent plant, native of our forests, where it is frequently found among the under-growths. This is a tender succelent plant, hardly able to sustain itself, having many oval finely divided leaves, of a whitish green colour. The stalks are hollow and cornered, much branched, and seldom rising very high, having on their tops long spikes of flowers, purple above, and whitish underneath, somewhat resembling the papilionaceous kind, having a heel or spur in the hinder part, the footstalk being inserted in the middle of the flower; they are succeded by single round seed.