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| Polygonum persicaria, Linn. Lady's Thumb. One of the annual smartweeds, but sold by seedsmen as a suit-able plant for backgrounds : glabrous or nearly so, erect or somewhat diffuse, 1-2 ft. tall: lvs. lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, slightly ciliate, usually with a triangular or crescent-shaped spot near the middle of the blade (whence the name lady's thumb); sheaths short, hairy on the margin : fls. in short spikes, pink or green- ish purple, the stamens 6 and the achene lenticular or triquetrous. Eu.—Naturalized everywhere about dwellings.
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| #REDIRECT [[Persicaria maculosa]] | | #REDIRECT [[Persicaria maculosa]] |
Latest revision as of 21:44, 16 September 2009