Biology:Polygonum tenerum
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Short description: Species of plant
| Polygonum tenerum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Polygonaceae |
| Genus: | Polygonum |
| Species: | P. tenerum
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| Binomial name | |
| Polygonum tenerum Spreng.[2]
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Polygonum tenerum, common name tall jointweed, slender jointweed, or wireweed, is a species of flowering plant.[3] It grows in the southeastern United States including parts of Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and southern Alabama.[3][4] It is an annual in the Polygonaceae family.[4] It grows in sandhill and dry pineland habitats.[5] It has small wiry stems and can grow to five feet tall. The white and pink flowers. It is dioecious. It produces reddish-brown achenes[4]
Polygonella gracilis is a synonym.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Polygonella gracilis" (in en). https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.135132/Polygonella_gracilis.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Polygonum tenerum Spreng.". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:696540-1.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center - The University of Texas at Austin". https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=POGR10.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Polygonella gracilis - Species Page - APA: Alabama Plant Atlas". http://floraofalabama.org/Plant.aspx?id=2942.
- ↑ Sciences, College of (May 12, 2017). "Tall Jointweed (Polygonella gracilis)". https://virtual.arboretum.ucf.edu/tall-jointweed/.
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