Knotweed
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Scientific name | Polygonum |
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Higher classification | Buckwheats |
Order | Caryophyllales |
Rank | Genus |
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ID | 591279 |
About Knotweed
Polygonum is a genus of about 130 species of flowering plant in the buckwheat and knotweed family Polygonaceae. Common names include knotweed, knotgrass, bistort, tearthumb, mile-a-minute, smartweed and several others. In the Middle English glossary of herbs Alphita, it was known as ars-smerte.