Plants of USA and Canada

Scientific or common name:

Polygonum cuspidatum Siebold & Zucc.


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

Taxon Page:

Name: Polygonum cuspidatum Siebold & Zucc. Taxon selection
Nomencl. ref.: Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. ii. 84.
Rank: species

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Japanese knotweed
en English name: Japanese knotweed
English name: Mexican-bamboo

Grown habit: Subshrub, Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial
 

Synonyms:
= Fallopia japonica (Houtt.) Ronse Decr.
= Pleuropterus cuspidatus (Siebold & Zucc.) Moldenke
= Pleuropterus zuccarinii (Small) Small
= Polygonum cuspidatum Siebold & Zucc. var. compactum (Hook. f.) L.H. Bailey
= Polygonum zuccarinii Small
= Reynoutria japonica Houtt.


Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Polygonum cuspidatum Siebold & Zucc. var. compactum (Hook. f.) L.H. Bailey



TAXONOMY

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


Page counter: 597 ( AVG: 221.09 / 219.791 )



Gallery:

Polygonum cuspidatum
Polygonum cuspidatum
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 1: 676.


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, AR, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV), CAN (BC, MB, NB, NF, NS, ON, PE, QC), FRA (SPM)

Distributional map for Polygonum cuspidatum Siebold & Zucc.
Map for Polygonum cuspidatum Siebold & Zucc.
(*) 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 densiflorum Meisn. [216]
2) Polygonum douglasii Greene [278]
3) Polygonum douglasii Greene ssp. austiniae (Greene) E. Murray [286]
4) Polygonum douglasii Greene ssp. engelmannii (Greene) Kartesz & Gandhi [376]
5) Polygonum equisetiforme Sm. [2144]
6) Polygonum fusiforme Greene [80]
7) Polygonum hickmanii H. Hinds & R. Morgan [230]
8) Polygonum lacerum Kunth [322]
9) Polygonum minus Huds. [1070]
10) Polygonum pensylvanicum L. [594]

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