Its fracture is fibrous. Roots tastes sweet and mucilagenous. Leaves are simple ovate or ovate- lancolate. Leaves are entire at the base and coarsely toothed at the apex. Taste is mucilagenous.
Flowers are pedicillate, actinomorphic, pentamerous and complete'.
Corolla consists of 5 petals, red in colour and about 3 inches in diameter. Cyanidin diglycoside from flowers,taraxeryl acetate and 8-sitosterol from the leafy stems and cyanidin, quereetin, hentriacontane,calcium oxalate, thiamine,riboflavin,niacin and ascorbic acid have been detected in the plant. Flavonoids are also present. The plant was extensively studied for its antifertility activity by Kholkute et al'. It was suggested that the plant inhibits pituitary gonadotrophic function.