Persicaria bistorta
Alpine Knotweed
Persicaria alpina
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- Botanical name
- Persicaria alpina
- Also known as
- Alpine Knotweed
- Family
- Polygonaceae
- Genus
- Persicaria
- Reference
- World Flora Online
How to grow Alpine Knotweed
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Other names for this plant
These names have all been used for Persicaria alpina but are no longer the accepted name. You may still meet them on old labels, in books, or in nursery catalogues.
Aconogonon alaskanum
Aconogonon alaskanum subsp. hultenianum
Aconogonon alaskanum var. glabrescens
Aconogonon alpinum
Aconogonon alpinum var. elephantinum
Gononcus undulatus
Persicaria undulata
Pleuropteropyrum alpinum
Pleuropteropyrum jeholense
Pleuropteropyrum undulatum
Polygonum alaskanum
Polygonum alaskanum var. glabrescens
Polygonum alpinum
Polygonum alpinum subsp. alaskanum
Polygonum alpinum var. alaskanum
Polygonum jeholense
Polygonum undulatum
Others in Persicaria
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