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Climbing Buckwheat

Fallopia cristata

Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in New York.January 1, February 1, March 2, April 3, May 6, June 3, July 2, August 2, September 2, October 2, November 1, December 1.
United States162
New York29
Massachusetts25
Connecticut24
Illinois12
Virginia11
South Carolina9
West Virginia8
North Carolina7
Michigan7

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
Orderpinks, cactuses, and allies · Caryophyllales
Familyknotweed family · Polygonaceae
GenusFallopias · Fallopia

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Climbing Buckwheat with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.