Plants of USA and Canada

Scientific or common name:

Polygonum bistorta L.


POLYGONACEAE Family selection - Buckwheat family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Polygonum bistorta L. Taxon selection
Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 360 (1753)
Rank: species

pictures Images of Polygonum bistorta


Common names

US name U.S. name: Meadow bistort
en English name: bistort
English name: easter-ledges
Italian name: Poligono bistorta

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial
 

Synonyms:


Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Polygonum bistorta L. ssp. plumosum (Small) Hultén
2) Polygonum bistorta L. var. bistorta
3) Polygonum bistorta L. var. plumosum (Small) B. Boivin



TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Caryophyllidae
Order: Polygonales
Family: Polygonaceae
Genus: Polygonum
Species:


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Gallery:

Polygonum bistorta
Polygonum bistorta
Picture modified from Bley, Franz - Botanisches Bilderbuch (1897/98) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Polygonum bistorta
Polygonum bistorta
Steve Hurst - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Polygonum bistorta
Polygonum bistorta
Picture modified from Graebner, Paul - Taschenbuch zum Pflanzenbestimmen (1918) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Polygonum bistorta
Polygonum bistorta
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Polygonum bistorta
Polygonum bistorta
Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Polygonum bistorta
Polygonum bistorta
Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Polygonum bistorta
Polygonum bistorta
Jan Kops et al. - Flora Batava - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Polygonum bistorta
Polygonum bistorta
Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Polygonum bistorta
Polygonum bistorta
Jacob Sturm, Johann Georg Sturm - Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen (1796). - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

Polygonum bistorta
Polygonum bistorta
C. Hoffmann - Botanischer Bilder-Atlas (1884) - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, MA, ME, VT), CAN (NF, NS, NT, YT)

Distributional map for Polygonum bistorta L.
Map for Polygonum bistorta L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA



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More species:
1) Polygonum bistorta L. var. plumosum (Small) B. Boivin [240]
2) Polygonum bistortoides Pursh [288]
3) Polygonum braziliense K. Koch, orth. var. [169]
4) Polygonum buxiforme Small [445]
5) Polygonum careyi Olney [319]
6) Polygonum cespitosum Blume var. cespitosum [218]
7) Polygonum convolvulus L. [501]
8) Polygonum douglasii Greene ssp. austiniae (Greene) E. Murray [281]
9) Polygonum fowleri B.L. Rob. [478]
10) Polygonum incarnatum Elliot [166]

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