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Reynoutria japonica, synonyms Fallopia japonica and Polygonum cuspidatum, is a species of herbaceous perennial plant in the knotweed and buckwheat family Polygonaceae. [1] [2] Common names include Japanese knotweed [2] and Asian knotweed. [3] It is native to East Asia in Japan, China and Korea.
Reynoutria is a genus of flowering plants in the Polygonaceae, also known as the knotweed or buckwheat family.The genus is native to eastern China, Eastern Asia and the Russian Far East, although species have been introduced to Europe and North America. [1]
Polygonum plebeium, the common knotweed, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the knotweed family, found natively throughout much of South Asia including India, in Madagascar, and introduced to the United States and Australia. It occurs in disturbed habitats that frequently are flooded, such as banks, ditches, and rice fields.
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] The genus was segregated from Polygonum. [5]
Bohemian knotweed is a nothospecies that is a cross between Japanese knotweed and giant knotweed.It has been documented as occurring in the wild in Japan. [1] The scientific name is accepted to be Reynoutria × bohemica, [2] but it may also be referred to as Fallopia × bohemica and Polygonum × bohemicum.
Knotweed is a common name for plants in several genera in the family Polygonaceae. Knotweed may refer to: Fallopia; Persicaria; Polygonum; Reynoutria. Reynoutria japonica or Japanese knotweed, a highly invasive species in Europe and North America
Polygonum is a genus of about 130 species of flowering plants in the buckwheat and knotweed family Polygonaceae. Common names include knotweed and knotgrass (though the common names may refer more broadly to plants from Polygonaceae). In the Middle English glossary of herbs Alphita (c. 1400–1425), it was known as ars-smerte.
The Polygonaceae are a family of flowering plants known informally as the knotweed family or smartweed—buckwheat family in the United States. The name is based on the genus Polygonum , and was first used by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu in 1789 in his book, Genera Plantarum . [ 2 ]