Polygonum Polygonum, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 77

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.302862

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Polygonum Polygonum
status

 

5. P. maritimum L. View in CoL , Sp. Pl. 361 (1753).

Perennial, with stout, woody stock. Stems 10-50 cm, procumbent, branched, stout. Leaves 5-25 mm, narrowly elliptical, acute, glaucous, usually blackening on drying; margins revolute. Ochreae reddish-brown at the base, with 8-12 conspicuous, branched veins, silvery-hyaline above, longer than most of the internodes. Flowers pink or whitish, solitary, or in axillary clusters of 2-4; bracts leaf-like. Nut 3 -5-5 mm, equalling or slightly exceeding the perianth, glossy. Maritime sand and shingle. 2n = 20. Shores of Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Sea, northwards to the Channel Islands. Al Az BI tBr Bu Co Cr Ga Gr Hs It Ju Lu Rm Rs (W, K) Sa SiTu.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Caryophyllales

Family

Polygonaceae

Genus

Polygonum

Loc

Polygonum Polygonum

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. 1964
1964
Loc

P. maritimum

L. 1753: 361
1753
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