*Persicaria nepalensis (Meisner) H. Gross. Section: Cephalopilon. Common name: Nepalese Smartweed. Phenology: Jul-Oct. Habitat: River banks, shores, other moist disturbed areas. Sometimes grown as a groundcover. Distribution: Native of e. Asia.
ID notes: Some of the horticultural selections have purple and/or whitish deltoid blazes on the leaves.
Origin/Endemic status: E. and se. Asia
Synonymy ⓘ: = Can, FNA5, K4, NE, NY, Pa; = Cephalophilon nepalense (Meisn.) Tzvelev; = Polygonum nepalense Meisn. — C, F, G. Basionym: Polygonum nepalense Meisn. 1826
Links to other floras: = Persicaria nepalensis - FNA5
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