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Aphanes, or Parsley-piert, is a genus from the Rose family Rosaceae.
A study from 2003 (see Rosoideae) indicates that Aphanes may belong to the genus Alchemilla, commonly called Lady's-mantle.
These are slender, annual prostrate herbs, much-branched with deeply lobed leaves on short petioles ( = leaf stalks). They are pilose ( = covered with soft hair). Tiny green to yellow flowers without petals, grow in clusters in the denticulate leaflike stipules.
They grow in Europe and Western AsiaThe continent of Asia is defined by subtracting Europe and Africa from the great land mass of Africa-Eurasia. The boundaries are vague, especially between Asia and Europe: Asia and Africa meet somewhere near the Suez Canal. The boundary between Asia and E.
Field Parsley-piert is sometimes used as a herbal remedy against kidneyThe kidneys are bean-shaped excretory organs in vertebrates. Part of the urinary system, the kidneys filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them, along with water, as urine. The medical field that studies the kidneys and diseases affec and bladderA bladder is a pouch or other flexible enclosure with waterproof or gasproof walls. In the context of animals and anatomy, "bladder" usually refers to the urinary bladder. The term is generic and can also be used for other enclosures, such as the gallblad calculi. It acts as a potent diureticA diuretic is any drug that tends to increase the flow of urine from the body ( diuresis). Some common diuretics are caffeine and alcohol. Medically, diuretics are used to treat heart failure, cirrhosis of the liver, Hypertension and certain kidney diseas and antilithic.