Native Plants
Digital Herbaria
Polygonum pensylvanicum
Polygonum pensylvanicum L.
Pennsylvania Smartweed, Pink Smartweed
Polygonaceae (Buckwheat Family)
USDA Symbol: POPE2USDA Native Status: L48 (N), AK (N), CAN (N)
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Specimen & Label Data
Polygonum pensylvanicum
Pigweed
Polygonaceae
Location: W side of Ira Lee Rd & 50 m S of Laurens Lane, San Antonio.Latitude: 0.000000
Habitat: Afternoon shade, in shallow borrow ditch. Alkaline soil. Big colony.
Description: Erect, single stalked annual from stout taproot, 65 cm tall. Stalk light-green, striate, internodes reddish. Leaves punctate, lanceolate, 3.5 x 10+ cm, petiolate, acute apically, rounded basally w/scattered, appresssed hairs (beneath). Ocrea eciliate, longer than wide, thin, brittle. Peduncle w/stalked glands. Infloresence terminal & lateral (immature).
County: Bexar
Collector: Harry Cliffe
Collection Date: Apr 29, 1994
Specimen number: 563
Herbarium Owner: NPSOT
Herbarium ID: 0847
Accession Date: Jul 26, 1994
Accession Number: 63
Annotations: SCXRB (In flower) [=Persicaria p.]