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Dotted Smartweed
Persicaria punctata
29 photos
Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.
Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.
Easily confused with
waterpepperPersicaria hydropiper
swamp smartweedPersicaria hydropiperoides
pale smartweedPersicaria lapathifolia
American jumpseedPersicaria virginiana
Stout SmartweedPersicaria robustior
spotted lady's thumbPersicaria maculosa
low smartweedPersicaria longiseta
Dense-flowered smartweedPersicaria glabra
Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.
Where it is recorded
| United States | 8,591 |
|---|---|
| Canada | 1,339 |
| Ontario | 1,096 |
| Missouri | 665 |
| New Jersey | 657 |
| New York | 652 |
| Michigan | 644 |
| Illinois | 538 |
| California | 529 |
| Arkansas | 407 |
Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.
Traits
Group and habits
- Medicinal useListed as having medicinal use by a harvested source. This is not medical advice.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.
Classification
| Kingdom | Plants · Plantae |
|---|---|
| Phylum | Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta |
| Class | Dicots · Magnoliopsida |
| Order | pinks, cactuses, and allies · Caryophyllales |
| Family | knotweed family · Polygonaceae |
| Genus | knotweeds, smartweeds, and waterpeppers · Persicaria |
Study it in a deck
- Medicinal Plants of Baltimore County
- Plants of Charleston County, South Carolina, United States
- Trees of Maryland
Or build your own from the species near you.
Sources
- Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
- Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
- Traits: Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species (CC BY 4.0)
- How much to rely on each source
Remember the name next time.
Practise Dotted Smartweed with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.