Plants of USA and Canada

Scientific or common name:

Polygonum viviparum L.


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

Taxon Page:

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

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Alpine bistort
en English name: alpine bistort
Italian name: Poligono viviparo

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial
 

Synonyms:
= Bistorta vivipara (L.) Gray
= Persicaria vivipara (L.) Ronse Decr.
= Polygonum fugax Small
= Polygonum macounii Small ex Macoun
= Polygonum viviparum L. var. alpinum Wahlenb.
= Polygonum viviparum L. var. macounii (Small ex Macoun) Hultén


Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Polygonum viviparum L. var. alpinum Wahlenb.
2) Polygonum viviparum L. var. macounii (Small ex Macoun) Hultén



TAXONOMY

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


Page counter: 883 ( AVG: 218.75 / 217.71 )



Gallery:

Polygonum viviparum
Polygonum viviparum
Bob Moseley - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. 1992. Western wetland flora: Field office guide to plant species. West Region, Sacramento. - Not copyrighted image

Polygonum viviparum
Polygonum viviparum
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 viviparum
Polygonum viviparum
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: 671.

Polygonum viviparum
Polygonum viviparum
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.

Polygonum viviparum
Polygonum viviparum
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA NRCS. Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide to plant species. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. - Not copyrighted image


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, AZ, CO, ID, ME, MI, MN, MT, NH, NM, NV, OR, SD, UT, VT, WA, WY), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, NU, ON, QC, SK, YT), DEN (GL), FRA (SPM)

Distributional map for Polygonum viviparum L.
Map for Polygonum viviparum 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 viviparum L. var. alpinum Wahlenb. [229]
2) Polymnia canadensis L. [234]
3) Polypodium appalachianum Haufler & Windham [278]
4) Polypodium calirhiza S. Whitmore & A.R. Sm. [221]
5) Polypodium crassifolium L. [187]
6) Polypodium jubiforme Kaulf. [98]
7) Polypodium sibiricum Sipl. [323]
8) Polypogon interruptus Kunth [805]
9) Polyscias cumingiana (C. Presl) Fernald-Vill. [259]
10) Polystichum acrostichoides (Michx.) Schott [374]

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