Bitterroot Restoration

Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Myrtales
Family: Lythraceae

Common name: Dadmari, Jangli mendi(Beng.); Blistering ammannia(Eng.).
Edible Parts: Leaves
Life cycle: Annual herb
Native Range: Native to America, Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe.

Blistering Ammannia is an erect, branched, smooth, slender, annual herb, found in open, damp, waste places. The leaves are narrow-oblong, oblanceshaped, or narrowly elliptic. The flowers are small, reenish or purplish, and borne in dense clusters in leaf axils.

The leaves or the ashes of the plant, mixed with oil, are applied to cure herpetic eruptions. The fresh, bruised leaves have been used in skin diseases as a rubefacient and as an external remedy for ringworm and parasitic skin affection.