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Biennial herb with an erect leafy stem often much-branching towards top, arising from small persistent rosette. Triangular leaves arranged oppositely decreasing in size up the stem. Multiple flat-faced flowers about 1 cm across, five pinkish-lavender petals, on stalks from stem and tangling with leaves. Flowers that open only in fine weather and not after mid-day.Prepared as medicinal tea for patients with gastric and liver diseases. A powerful antioxidant. The Aboriginal people in Tasmania used the leaves of Centurium spicatum for treatment of bilious headaches and haemorrhoids.