Persicaria
Appearance
Persicaria | |
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Persicaria capitata | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Caryophyllales |
Family: | Polygonaceae |
Subfamily: | Polygonoideae |
Genus: | Persicaria Mill. 1754 |
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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]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "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
[change | change source]- 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