Origin: Swales, damp thickets, shores, moist fields, meadows, and waste areas

Uses: This herb reportedly has been used as an astringent, antipyretic, vulnerary, antirheumatic, tonic, 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