形态描述

灌木，高1-2米，植株有臭味；花序轴、叶柄密被褐色、黄褐色或紫色脱落性的柔毛；小枝近圆形，皮孔显著。叶片纸质，宽卵形或卵形，长8-20厘米，宽5-15厘米，顶端尖或渐尖，基部宽楔形、截形或心形，边缘具粗或细锯齿，侧脉4-6对，表面散生短柔毛，背面疏生短柔毛和散生腺点或无毛，基部脉腋有数个盘状腺体；叶柄长4-17厘米。伞房状聚伞花序顶生，密集；苞片叶状，披针形或卵状披针形，长约3厘米，早落或花时不落，早落后在花序梗上残留凸起的痕迹，小苞片披针形，长约1.8厘米；花萼钟状，长2-6毫米，被短柔毛及少数盘状腺体，萼齿三角形或狭三角形，长1-3毫米；花冠淡红色、红色或紫红色，花冠管长2-3厘米，裂片倒卵形，长5-8毫米；雄蕊及花柱均突出花冠外；花柱短于、等于或稍长于雄蕊；柱头2裂，子房4室。核果近球形，径0.6-1.2厘米，成熟时蓝黑色。花果期5-11月。

分布地区

产华北、西北、西南以及江苏、安徽、浙江、江西、湖南、湖北、广西。生于海拔2500米以下的山坡、林缘、沟谷、路旁、灌丛润湿处。印度北部、越南、马来西亚也有分布。

主要用途

根、茎、叶入药，有祛风解毒、消肿止痛之效，近来还用于治疗子宫脱垂。

其它

引用出处：中国植物志

中国植物志英文版

Shrubs 1-2 m tall. Branchlets subterete, distinctly lenticellate. Petiole 4-17 cm, densely brown, yellow-brown, or purplish pubescent when young, glabrescent; leaf blade ovate to broadly ovate, 8-20 5-15 cm, papery, abaxially sparsely glandular pubescent to subglabrous and with several peltate glands near base, adaxially sparsely pubescent, base cuneate, truncate, or cordate, margin serrate, apex acuminate to acute, veins 4-6 pairs. Inflorescences terminal, dense, capitate, flat-topped cymes; bracts lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, ca. 3 cm, deciduous; bractlets lanceolate, ca. 1.8 cm. Calyx campanulate, tube 2-6 mm, pubescent, with several peltate glands; lobes narrowly triangular to triangular, 1-10 mm. Corolla pinkish, red, or purple, tube 2-3 cm; lobes obovate, 5-8 mm. Stamens and style exserted. Drupes blue-black, subglobose, 6-12 mm in diam. Fl. and fr. May-Nov. 1100-2500 m. Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [Vietnam] Medicinal.----from “Flora of China”