Polygonella polygama (Vent.) Engelm. & A.Gray
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Polygonaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Slender, somewhat woody perennial 2–6 dm, often freely branched; lvs flat, mostly narrowly cuneate, 5–20(–35) × (1–)2–4(–6) mm, with hyaline margins at least distally; infl of few–many racemes 1–3 cm; pedicels straight, divergent, 1 mm at anthesis; some fls pistillate, others functionally staminate; tep white to pink, ovate, 1–1.5 mm, the 2 outer becoming reflexed during anthesis, persistent but scarcely enlarging, the 3 inner remaining loosely appressed, in pistillate fls enlarging to 2–3 mm in fr; achene 1.5–2 mm; 2n=28. Dry, sandy soil and pine barrens on the coastal plain; se. Va. to Fla. and Tex. Sept.