Persicaria
Persicaria is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the knotweed family, Polygonaceae. Plants of the genus are known commonly as knotweeds.[2]:436 or smartweeds.[3] It has a cosmopolitan distribution, with species occurring nearly worldwide.[3][4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Unrecognized taxon (fix): | Persicaria |
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List
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Persicaria Media
Illustration from the Japanese agricultural encyclopedia Seikei Zusetsu (1804)
Denseflower Knotweed, Common marsh buckwheat Persicaria glabra in Narsapur, Andhra Pradesh, India.
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References
- ↑ "Persicaria Mill". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
- ↑ Stace, C.A. (2010). New Flora of the British Isles (Third ed.). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. p. 88. ISBN 9780521707725.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Persicaria. Flora of North America.
- ↑ Persicaria. New South Wales Flora Online. National Herbarium, Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney.
Further reading
- Kong M.-J & S.-P Hong 2018. Comparative achene morpohology of Persicaria sect Cephalophilon and related taxa (Polygonaceae). Korean J Pl Taxon 48(2):134-142
Other websites
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Wikispecies has information on: Persicaria. |
- Kim S and MJ Donogue 2008 Molecular phylogeny of Persicaria (Persicarieae) Polygonaceae Syst Bot. 33:77-86