VIRBOGA
Home Collections Lists Contact
Persicaria bistorta - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Waidmannslust, Berlin, Germany; 7/2009 © Jörn Germer

Persicaria bistorta - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Waidmannslust, Berlin, Germany; 7/2009 © Jörn Germer

Persicaria bistorta - Leaf insertion - Click to enlarge!

Leaf insertion; Waidmannslust, Berlin, Germany; 7/2009 © Jörn Germer

Persicaria bistorta - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Waidmannslust, Berlin, Germany; 7/2009 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 1577
Date of entry: 12.02.2011
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Common Bistort

German: Schlangen-Knöterich

Portuguese: Serpentina-vermelha

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Polygonales (29)

        Family: Polygonaceae (31)(family description)

          Genus: Persicaria (6)

            Epithet: bistorta L. (1)

bistorta => double-twisted, turned

Characteristics

Climate: temperate

Habit: herb

Flower colour: white

External links

Check for Persicaria bistorta at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI
  • [1745] Polygonum bistorta - Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland Österreich und der Schweiz

Search for more