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Bistorta officinalis. Bistorta officinalis (synonym Persicaria bistorta), known as bistort, common bistort, European bistort, or meadow bistort, is a species of flowering plant in the dock family Polygonaceae native to Europe and northern and western Asia. [1] Other common names include snakeroot, snake-root, snakeweed, and Easter-ledges.
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.
Bistorta amplexicaulis (synonym Persicaria amplexicaulis), the red bistort [2] or mountain fleece, is a species of flowering plant in the buckwheat family Polygonaceae, native to China, the Himalayas, and Pakistan.
Bistorta vacciniifolia, the whortleberry-leaved knotweed, is a species of flowering plant in the family Polygonaceae, native to Tibet and the Himalaya. [1] Well-suited for clay soils, as its synonym Persicaria vacciniifolia it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society 's Award of Garden Merit .
Bistorta vivipara (synonym Persicaria vivipara) is a perennial herbaceous flowering plant in the knotweed and buckwheat family Polygonaceae, commonly known as alpine bistort. Scientific synonyms include Bistorta vivipara and Polygonum viviparum .
Spring Hill Fire Department began its first full-time fire academy with 15 new recruits to increase staff numbers and improve public safety.
Bistorta affinis is a creeping, densely tufted, mat-forming perennial, growing to 25 cm (10 in) tall by 60 cm (24 in) broad. The narrow elliptic leaves are white on the underside because of a waxy coating.
It was not immediately clear if the house fire was related to the wildfires burning across the Texas Panhandle. Firefighters in Fritch and Hutchinson County since last Monday have been battling ...