A creeping ground-covering plant with kidney shaped leaves, almost a minature rhubarb appearance. The height  varies from 5 - 20 cm ( 2 to 7.9 inches) depending on it's situation but it particularly favours damp, sheltered locations. Plants are either male or female, the magenta female flowers being fluffier than the rusty-red spikey males. They ripen to raspberry- like hard inedible little berry clusters (poisonous)from February to April. However, some birds do take these berries.

Native and common on East and West Falklands. Also found on neighbouring Fuegia and Patagonia.

Sources include:, Falklands Conservation, A Field Guide to the Wildlife of The Falkland Islands and South Georgia - Ian J Strange, Plants of the Falkland Islands - Ali Liddle 2007,The Vascular Flora of the Falkland Islands- D. M. Moore, B.Sc., Ph.D, 1968,

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