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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 ]
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 .
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.
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Polygonum tenerum, common name tall jointweed, slender jointweed, or wireweed, is a species of flowering plant. [2] It grows in the southeastern United States including parts of Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and southern Alabama. [2] [3] It is an annual in the Polygonaceae family. [3]
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]
Polygonoideae is a subfamily of plants in the family Polygonaceae.It includes a number of plants that can be highly invasive, such as Japanese knotweed, Reynoutria japonica, and its hybrid with R. sachalinensis, R. × bohemica.
Polygonum arenastrum, commonly known as equal-leaved knotgrass, [2] is a summer annual flowering plant in the knotweed family Polygonaceae.Other common names include common knotweed, prostrate knotweed, mat grass, oval-leaf knotweed, [3] stone grass, wiregrass, and door weed, as well as many others.