Persicaria

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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]

Persicaria
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Persicaria capitata
Scientific classification e
Unrecognized taxon (fix): Persicaria
Synonyms[1]

Persicaria Media

References

  1. "Persicaria Mill". Plants of the World Online. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
  2. Stace, C.A. (2010). New Flora of the British Isles (Third ed.). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. p. 88. ISBN 9780521707725.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Persicaria. Flora of North America.
  4. 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

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