Slender Knotweed
Polygonum tenue
Summary 4
Polygonum tenue, the slender knotweed or pleat-leaf knotweed, is a North American species of plants in the buckwheat family. it is widespread across south-central Canada (Ontario) and the eastern and central United States from Maine to Georgia, west as far as Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Texas (though apparently now extirpated from Maine and New Hampshire).
National distribution 5
Canada
Origin: NativeRegularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Present
Confidence: Confident
United States
Origin: Unknown/UndeterminedRegularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
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More Info
- iNat taxon page
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- BOLD Systems BIN search
- eFloras.org
- Flora of North America (beta)
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
- Go Botany
- HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
- IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
- Maryland Biodiversity Project
- NatureServe Explorer 2.0
- SEINet Symbiota portals
- Tropicos
- USDA PLANTS database
- VASCAN by Canadensys
- World Flora Online
