Origins: Fresh to brackish marshes, streams, ponds and bogs, and wet pinelands.

Uses: In large doses, infusions have been used as emetics. Also used as a diaphoretic and expectorant.

A guide to medicinal plants of Appalachia/ Krochmal, Arnold; Walter, Russel S.; Doughty, Richard M.: USA: U.S.D.A Forest Service:,1959