Bitterroot Restoration

Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Violaceae
Common name: Numbora, Ratanpurus(Beng.).
Life cycle: Perennial
Native Range: Native to Africa, Australia, India.

Hybanthus enneaspermus is a perennial herb or small shrub to 60 cm high, smooth or hairy. Their leaves are linear to lance-like, 1-5 cm long, margins recurved to revolute, occasionally flat; stipules acuminate, 1-4 mm long. Pink-purple spade-shaped flowers occur solitary. Sepals 3-4 mm long. Lower petal broad spade-shaped, pink-purple, with deep purple veins.

Their herb is considered to be extremely beneficial to men, used as a diuretic, demulcent and tonic. The root is diuretic and is used in urinary affections and bowel complaints of children. Decoction of leaves and tender stalks is demulcent. Their fruit is used to treat scorpion sting.