Persicaria setacea |
Persicaria sagittata |
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bog smartweed, bristly smartweed |
arrow-leaf knotweed, arrow-leaf tearthumb, arrow-vine, renouée sagittée |
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Habit | Plants perennial, 5–15 dm; roots also often arising from proximal nodes; rhizomes present, stolons sometimes produced on plants in water. | Plants annual, 3–20 dm; roots also often arising from proximal nodes. |
Stems | ascending or erect, branched distally, slightly ribbed, glabrous or loosely appressed- to spreading-hirsute near nodes. |
scandent, ribbed, glabrous; prickles 1–1.5 mm. |
Leaves | ocrea brown, cylindric, 10–20 mm, chartaceous, base usually inflated, margins truncate, ciliate with bristles 6–12 mm, surface strigose and with loosely ascending to spreading hairs at least proximally, not glandular-punctate; petiole 0.1–0.5 cm, spreading-hirsute, leaves sometimes sessile; blade without dark triangular or lunate blotch adaxially, lanceolate, (3–)6–15(–18) × (1.5–)2–3.2(–4.8) cm, base tapered to truncate, margins appressed-ciliate, apex acute to acuminate, faces sparsely hirsute to loosely appressed hirsute abaxially and adaxially. |
ocrea brownish, cylindric, (3–)5–13 mm, chartaceous, base inflated or not, without prickles, margins oblique, glabrous or ciliate at tip with bristles 0.2–1 mm, surface glabrous; petiole 0.5–4 cm; blade broadly lanceolate to oblong, 2–8.5 × 1–3 cm, base sagittate to cordate, margins entire, ciliate or eciliate, apex obtuse to acute, faces glabrous or densely appressed-pubescent, usually with retrorse prickles along midvein abaxially. |
Inflorescences | mostly terminal, erect, uninterrupted, 20–80 × 4–8 mm; peduncle 10–70 mm, strigose; ocreolae overlapping, margins ciliate with bristles (0.6–)1–3(–5) mm. |
capitate or paniclelike, uninterrupted, 5–15 × 4–10 mm; peduncle 10–80 mm, usually glabrous, sometimes with retrorse prickles proximally; ocreolae overlapping, margins eciliate. |
Pedicels | ascending, 1–3 mm. |
mostly ascending, 1–1.5 mm. |
Flowers | (1–)2–4(–5) per ocreate fascicle, homostylous; perianth greenish proximally, creamy or tan distally, occasionally tinged pink, glabrous, not glandular-punctate, nonaccrescent; tepals 5, connate ca. 1/3 their length, obovate, 2–3 mm, veins not prominent, not anchor-shaped, margins entire, apex obtuse to rounded; stamens 5, included; anthers pink or red, elliptic; styles 3, connate proximally. |
2–3 per ocreate fascicle; perianth white or greenish white, often tinged pink or red, sometimes entirely pink, glabrous, accrescent, not becoming blue and fleshy in fruit; tepals 5, connate 1/3–1/2 their length, broadly elliptic, 3–5 mm, apex obtuse; stamens 8, filaments distinct, free; anthers pink, ovate; styles 3, connate to middle. |
Achenes | included or apex exserted, brown to black, 3-gonous, (1.5–)2–2.5 × 1.2–1.7 mm, shiny, smooth. |
included or styles exserted, light or dark brown to black, 3-gonous, 2.5–4 × 1.8–2.5 mm, dull to shiny, smooth to minutely punctate. |
2n | = 20. |
= 40. |
Persicaria setacea |
Persicaria sagittata |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Oct. | Flowering Jun–Oct. |
Habitat | Alluvial woods, swamp forests | Moist shaded sites, meadows, pastures, fens, swamps, shorelines of ponds and streams |
Elevation | 0-300 m (0-1000 ft) | 0-1000 m (0-3300 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; DE; FL; GA; IL; IN; KY; LA; MA; MD; MI; MO; MS; NC; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; TN; TX; VA; WA
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AL; AR; CO; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; NC; ND; NE; NH; NJ; NY; OH; OK; PA; RI; SC; SD; TN; TX; VA; VT; WI; WV; MB; NB; NF; NS; ON; PE; QC; e Asia
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Discussion | C. B. McDonald (1980) showed that Persicaria setacea is closely related to P. hirsuta and P. hydropiperoides. Hybrids between P. setacea and P. hirsuta have been produced experimentally but appear to be rare in the wild. Persicaria setacea and P. hydropiperoides occasionally occur in mixed populations but do not hybridize (McDonald). Persicaria setacea sometimes intergrades morphologically with P. hydropiperoides, especially in New England. Specimens of P. setacea without the characteristic ascending or spreading hairs on the ocreae usually can be distinguished from P. hydropiperoides by the extent of adnation of the hairs to the ocreae—up to one-third their lengths in P. setacea, but one-third to two-thirds their lengths in P. hydropiperoides. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Persicaria sagittata is an extremely variable species. Achene and leaf characters have been used by some authors to separate North American and Asian populations, but these characters show weak geographic variation (C. W. Park 1988). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 5, p. 588. | FNA vol. 5, p. 577. |
Parent taxa | Polygonaceae > subfam. Polygonoideae > Persicaria > sect. Persicaria | Polygonaceae > subfam. Polygonoideae > Persicaria > sect. Echinocaulon |
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Synonyms | Polygonum setaceum, Polygonum hydropiperoides var. setaceum, Polygonum setaceum var. interjectum, Polygonum setaceum var. tonsum | Polygonum sagittatum, Polygonum sagittatum var. gracilentum, Tracaulon sagittatum, Truellum sagittatum |
Name authority | (Baldwin) Small: Fl. S.E. U.S., 379. (1903) | (Linnaeus) H. Gross: Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 113. (1919) |
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