Polygonum fowleri B.L.Rob.
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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 - Prostrate to ascending, homophyllous annual to 5 dm, with relatively few, divergent branches; lvs elliptic-oblong to oblanceolate, 1–4 cm × 3–10 mm; ocreae seldom over 4 mm, lacerate, brown, the pedicels included or barely exsert; mature perianth 3–5 mm, cleft nearly to the base, its segments oblong, obtuse, cucullate (at least the outer), with white or pink margins, after anthesis appressed to the achene; achenes 2.8–4 mm, broadly short-beaked distally, finely granular- roughened, included (to 5 mm and exsert in late season); 2n=40, 60. Sea-beaches and margins of salt- marshes; Lab. and Nf. to Me., and on the n. Pacific coast. (P. allocarpum)