Mother's Heart / Rusomača

Description:

It is plants grow from a rosette of lobed leaves at the base. From the base emerges a stem about 0.2 - 0.5 m tall, which bears a few pointed leaves which partly grasp the stem. The flowers are white and small, in loose racemes, and produce seed pods which are heart-shaped.

Habitat:

It is native to eastern Europe and Asia minor but is naturalized and considered a common weed in many parts of the world, especially in colder climates, including Britain, where it is regarded as an archaeophyte, North America and China but also in the Mediterranean and North Africa.

Notes:

Other names: shepherd's-purse