The funnel-shaped, flowers with six petals can be crocus shaped, but may also open flat or even reflex slightly. Flower color in the species ranges from white to yellow and pink.
The flowers typically last only for a day or two; but new flowers may appear in a succession of blooms, especially during humid or rainy weather.
It was used for simple problems from head ache, cough, cold, and boils to very complicated diseases such as breast cancer, tuberculosis, rheumatism, tumors.