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Polygonum tenerum, common name tall jointweed, slender jointweed, or wireweed, is a species of flowering plant. It grows in the southeastern United States including parts of Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and southern Alabama. It is an annual in the Polygonaceae family. It grows in sandhill and dry pineland habitats. It has small wiry stems and can grow to five feet tall. The white and pink flowers. It is dioecious. It produces reddish-brown achenes
Polygonella gracilis is a synonym.
Leathery knotweed · Knotweed · Polygonum albanicum · Polygonum amgense · European knotweed · Oval-leaf knotweed · Austin's Knotweed · Prostrate knotweed · Narrowleaf knotweed · Bidwell's knotweed · Bolander's knotweed · Northern Knotgrass
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Polygonum tenerum 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.
