Polygonum aviculare
Doorweed
Early Fruit
Regina
03-Sep-2019
Note the achene slightly protrudes beyond the white-margined tepals.
I had trouble determining whether this
specimen was P. aviculare or P. achoreum as it appears to have
characteristics of both species, so this is a provisional identification.
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 Polygonum, derived from the key in
the Flora of North America, is found here.
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 Polygonum.
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