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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 ]
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 family Polygonaceae, also known as the knotweed family or smartweed family, are a group of dicots comprising about 50 genera and 1120 species of herbs, shrubs and small trees. Members include buckwheat, sorrel (but not wood sorrel), rhubarb, and knotgrass.
Poaceae (grass family) Polygonaceae: knotweed family; Coccoloba: coccoloba trees; Coccoloba diversifolia: pigeon plum Polygonaceae (knotweed family) Coccoloba uvifera: seagrape Polygonaceae (knotweed family) Proteaceae: protea family; Alloxylon: alloxylon trees; Alloxylon flammeum: satin oak Proteaceae (protea family) Banksia: banksia trees ...
Eriogonum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Polygonaceae. The genus is found in North America and is known as wild buckwheat. This is a highly species-rich genus, and indications are that active speciation is continuing. It includes some common wildflowers such as the California buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum).
[2] [3] It is an annual in the Polygonaceae family. [3] It grows in sandhill and dry pineland habitats. [4] It has small wiry stems and can grow to five feet tall. The white and pink flowers. It is dioecious. It produces reddish-brown achenes [3] Polygonella gracilis is a synonym. [1]
Triplaris is a genus of plants in the family Polygonaceae. Ant tree is a common name for plants in this genus. [1] The species are variously distributed in the Americas. Some species are used for lumber. They are dioecious pioneer species. [2]
The docks and sorrels, genus Rumex, are a genus of about 200 species of annual, biennial, and perennial herbs in the buckwheat family, Polygonaceae.Members of this genus are very common perennial herbs with a native almost worldwide distribution, and introduced species growing in the few places where the genus is not native.