Persicaria wallichii |
Persicaria bungeana |
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garden knotweed, garden smartweed, Himalayan knotweed, Kashmir plume |
prickly smartweed |
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Habit | Plants annual, 3–8 dm; roots not also arising from proximal nodes. | |
Stems | ascending to erect, ribbed or obscurely so, glabrous or glandular-pubescent distally; prickles 1–1.5 mm. |
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Leaves | ocrea brownish, cylindric, 8–14 mm, chartaceous, base inflated or not, without prickles, margins truncate, ciliate with bristles 2–4 mm, surface with appressed bristles along veins; petiole 0.5–1.5 cm; blade lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 5–12.5 × 1.5–3.5 cm, base acute, margins entire, antrorsely ciliate, apex acute acuminate, rarely obtuse, faces glabrous or pubescent and, usually, with antrorse prickles along midvein abaxially and adaxially. |
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Inflorescences | racemelike, uninterrupted or interrupted proximally, 20–45 × 5–10 mm; peduncle 20–40 mm, usually stipitate-glandular at least proximally; ocreolae usually overlapping, sometimes not overlapping proximally, margins eciliate. |
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Pedicels | mostly ascending, 2–3 mm. |
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Flowers | 2–4 per ocreate fascicle; perianth pale green, often tinged red, glabrous, accrescent, not becoming blue and fleshy in fruit; tepals 5, connate 1/4–1/3 their length, petaloid, elliptic to broadly elliptic, 3–4 mm, apex obtuse; stamens 8, filaments distinct, free; anthers pink, ovate; styles 2, connate to middle. |
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Achenes | included, black, biconvex, 2.5–3 × 2.3–2.8 mm, dull, rugose. |
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Persicaria wallichii |
Persicaria bungeana |
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Phenology | Flowering Jul–Sep. | |
Habitat | Cultivated fields | |
Elevation | 300-400 m (1000-1300 ft) | |
Distribution |
CA; MA; OR; BC; Asia
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IA; IL; MN; e Asia (n China, Japan, Korea, Manchuria) [Introduced in North America] |
Discussion | Varieties 2 (1 in the flora). Persicaria wallichii is an ornamental that escapes infrequently in the flora area. A population in Nova Scotia apparently was ephemeral. Plants with leaf blades sparsely to densely pubescent abaxially and pedicels glabrous are var. wallichii, to which naturalized North American plants appear to be referable. Plants with leaf blades brownish-tomentose abaxially and pedicels usually pubescent are var. tomentosa S. P. Hong, which may be in cultivation in North America. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Persicaria bungeana is a weed of soybean fields (R. N. Andersen et al. 1985). It is not known how or when it was introduced into the midwestern United States. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 5, p. 581. | FNA vol. 5, p. 578. |
Parent taxa | Polygonaceae > subfam. Polygonoideae > Persicaria > sect. Rubrivena | Polygonaceae > subfam. Polygonoideae > Persicaria > sect. Echinocaulon |
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Synonyms | Polygonum polystachyum, Aconogonon polystachyum, Pleuropteropyrum polystachyum, Reynoutria polystachya, Rubrivena polystachya | Polygonum bungeanum |
Name authority | Greuter & Burdet: Willdenowia 19: 41. (1989) | (Turczaninow) Nakai: in T. Mori, Enum. Pl. Corea, 131. (1922) |
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