Stem

Ash ashwagandha is an annual herb, 60-350 cm tall; the stem is erect, stout, ribbed and green or purplish-red striped, and much-branched; the branches are ascending or spreading. Leaves have whitish small granular abaxial surface.

Leaves

Leaves with long petioles; leaf blade rhombic-ovate to lanceolate, 3-6 cm long, 2.5-5 cm wide, apex acute or slightly obtuse, base broadly cuneate, margins often irregularly serrate, powdery granules borne below, gray-green.

Flowers

Flowers bisexual, several in glomerular clusters, most of the flower clusters arranged in axillary or terminal paniculate inflorescences; tepals 5, broadly ovate-puberulent or elliptic, with longitudinal ridges and membranous margins, apex obtuse or retuse; stamens 5; stigmas 2.

Cystocarps

Cystocarps completely enclosed in the perianth or apically slightly exserted, pericarp thin, and seeds tightly adherent; seeds transverse