Taxon: Polygonum argyrocoleon Steud. ex Kunze

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Common names:

• Persian knotweed   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• silver-sheath knotweed   (Source: Names Beetle ) – English
  
• ghardab   (Source: Ill L Qatar ) – Arabic
  
• zhou bian xu   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (plant of disturbed sites fide F CalifJep)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Iraq
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  China: China - Gansu, Nei Monggol, Qinghai, Xinjiang
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Russian Federation - European part

• naturalized elsewhere

References:

• Beetle, A. A. 1970. Recommended plant names. Univ. Wyoming Agr. Exp. Sta. Res. J. 31.
• Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California. [introduced].
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Norton, J. et al. 2009. Illustrated checklist of the flora of Qatar.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Rollins, R. C. & I. A. Al-Shehbaz. 1986. Weeds of south-west Asia in North America with special reference to the Cruciferae. Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh 89B:298.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Polygonum argyrocoleon.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Polygonum argyrocoleon.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Polygonum argyrocoleon.

Check other web resources for Polygonum argyrocoleon Steud. ex Kunze:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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