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Large Leaf Wireweed

Polygonum smallianum

Also called Large Leaved Jointweed, Largeleaf Jointweed

Family
Polygonaceae (Buckwheat family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Alabama to Florida
Climate
subtropical

About

Polygonum smallianum (synonym Polygonella macrophylla) is a species of flowering plant in the knotweed family known by the common name largeleaf jointweed. It is native to a small area around the border between Alabama and Florida in the United States.

Where it grows

This species occurs in the Florida scrub of the Florida Panhandle and a part of southern Alabama. It grows in open scrub and coastal dunes. Rare in general, it can be common in its range.

Other Polygonella plants

American Jointweed · Wireweed · Fringed Jointweed · Sandlace · Sandhill Wireweed · October Flower

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Polygonum smallianum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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