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Taxon: Polygonum aviculare L.

Genus: Polygonum
Family: Polygonaceae subfamily: Polygonoideae.
Nomen number: 29238
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:362. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 09-Mar-2004 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 15-Aug-2005
Species priority site is: Western Regional PI Station (W6).
Accessions: 1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


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Common names:

  • American knotweed   (Source: F NAmer ) – English   [Polygonum aviculare subsp. buxiforme]
  • common knotweed   (Source: F NAmer ) – English   [Polygonum aviculare subsp. aviculare]
  • doorweed   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  • knotgrass   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  • knotweed   (Source: Pl Book ) – English
  • narrow-leaf knotweed   (Source: F NAmer ) – English   [Polygonum aviculare subsp. neglectum]
  • northern knotweed   (Source: F NAmer ) – English   [Polygonum aviculare subsp. boreale]
  • prostrate knotweed   (Source: Names Beetle ) – English
  • wireweed   (Source: F NZeal ) – English
  • bian xu   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – Transcribed Chinese
  • renouée des oiseaux   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  • erva-de-bicho-dos-passarinhos   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  • sempre-noiva-dos-passarinhos   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
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Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Naturalized:
  • worldwide weed of cultivated

      Other:
  • origin unknown

References:

  • Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand. (F NZeal)
  • Beetle, A. A. 1970. Recommended plant names. Univ. Wyoming Agr. Exp. Sta. Res. J. 31. (Names Beetle)
  • CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988) (Weed CIBA)
  • Costea, M. & F. J. Tardif. 2005. The biology of Canadian weeds. 131. Polygonum aviculare L. Canad. J. Pl. Sci. 85:481–506.
  • Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR). (L USSR)
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds. (Atlas WWeed)
  • Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
  • Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. (Pl Book)
  • Malezasdemexico. Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
  • Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
  • Webster's third new international dictionary. (Websters Dict)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Polygonum aviculare L.:

  • Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
  • Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

  • GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
  • Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?29238 (09 February 2010)

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