Water Smartweed
Persicaria amphibia
Water Smartweed
Inflorescence
Regina
18-August-2025
The inflorescence is comprised of one or two terminal spike-like racemes. Plants growing above the water line (such as this one) tend to produce short- to elongate-cylindric racemes 40-110 (150) mm long, while plants growing in standing water tend to produce ovoid-conic to short-cylindric racemes 10-40 (60) mm long.
A key to all species of family Polygonaceae
that are found in Alberta, written by Lorna Allen and Linda Kershaw, is found here.
A key to Saskatchewan species of genus Persicaria, derived from the key
in the Flora of North America, is found here.
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Polygonaceae: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora leading to this family. The answers do not all apply to all genera in Polygonaceae, but they all do apply to genus Persicaria.
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