| Polygonum amphibium subsp. laevimarginatum Hult. | |||
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| Family | Polygonaceae — APG family: Polygonaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Polygonum amphibium var. stipulaceum Colem., Persicaria amphibia var. stipulacea (Colem.) Hara. | ||
| Common name | water smartweed | ||
| Description | Creeping, from branched rhizome; leaves with smooth margin, the lower long- petiolated; spikes thick; calyx pink. | ||
| Ecology | Wet places. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | Occurs in aquatic forms with very long-petiolated leaves and in terrestrial forms with shorter-petiolated leaves. P. amphibium described from Europe, subsp. laevimarginatum from lake “S. Joannis.” Broken line on circumpolar map indicates range of subsp. amphibium. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.