Dysphania multifida

Prostrate to suberect, aromatic (resembling turpentine) perennial herb with branches to 1 m long or more, arising from a deep woody taproot. Branchlets with short cottony hairs. Leaves pinnatisect, oblong in outline, to c. 2 cm long, 1 cm wide; segments acute-tipped, sparsely cottony-hairy, margins recurved, lower surface partially covered by yellowish resin droplets. Flowers in small clusters in axils of reduced floral leaves; bisexual flowers with perianth 5-lobed in upper half, stamens 5 with broad membranous filaments; female flowers usually more numerous than bisexual, the perianth ovoid and barely lobed, becoming prominently reticulate in fruit and falling intact; pericarp with fine twisted hairs and resin droplets on upper surface. Seed circular, mostly vertical, red-brown, c. 0.8–1 mm diam. Flowers all year.