Maral Root Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Maral Root (Rhaponticum carthamoides, also known as Leuzea carthamoides) is a robust perennial of the daisy family, Asteraceae, native to the alpine meadows of the Altai and Sayan mountains of southern Siberia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia. It grows 50-150 cm tall with large, deeply lobed, thistle-like leaves and a single globe-shaped purple-violet flower head up to 8 cm across. The thick, woody, dark brown rhizome has a distinctive resinous smell, and the name recalls the maral deer that dig for it in spring. We extract the dried root.