Sunshine coin leaf

Name: Sunshine coin leaf

SUNSHINE COIN-LEAVED

 

Perennial plant with thin stems woody at the bottom within 30 cm in height, creeping and ascending, seated with opposite oval leaves, felted below. Flowers in racemes, large, regular, golden yellow, with 5 sepals and 5 petals. The fruit is a hairy capsule with brown cellular seeds. Blooms in May-July.

It grows on hillsides, in light pine forests, on coastal cliffs.

The plant contains tannins, helianthemin glycoside. Medicinal raw material is grass without woody stems.

In folk medicine, a decoction of water is drunk for diseases caused by weight lifting.