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Polygonum capitatum - Inflorescence close-up - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence close-up; Amares, Braga, Portugal; 4/2006 © Jörn Germer

Polygonum capitatum - Inflorescences - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescences; Ilha de São Miguel, Açores, Portugal; 4/2007 © Jörn Germer

Polygonum capitatum - Bee on inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Bee on inflorescence; Ilha de São Miguel, Açores, Portugal; 4/2007 © Jörn Germer

Polygonum capitatum - Upper leaf surface - Click to enlarge!

Upper leaf surface; Amares, Braga, Portugal; 4/2006 © Jörn Germer

Polygonum capitatum - Leaf insertion - Click to enlarge!

Leaf insertion; Ilha de São Miguel, Açores, Portugal; 4/2007 © Jörn Germer

Polygonum capitatum - Lower side of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Lower side of leaf; Ilha de São Miguel, Açores, Portugal; 4/2007 © Jörn Germer

Polygonum capitatum - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Ilha de São Miguel, Açores, Portugal; 4/2007 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 533
Date of entry: 04.05.2007
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Pinkhead smartweed

German: Köpfchen-Knöterich

Mandarin: 头花蓼 (tou hua liao)

Portuguese: Polígono

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Polygonales (29)

        Family: Polygonaceae (31)(family description)

          Genus: Polygonum (8)

            Epithet: capitatum Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don (3)

Synonym: Persicaria capitata (Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don) Gross.

capitata => head-shaped, as ahead of composite bloom

capitatum => head-shaped, as ahead of composite bloom

Characteristics

Climate: sub-tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: violet, pink, white

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