Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Caryophyllales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Persicaria virginiana
FAMILY
Polygonaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Jumpseed at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Polygonum virginianum
FAMILY
Polygonaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Persicaria virginiana
SYNONYMOUS WITH Studies of the southeastern United States flora (Horton, 1972)
Antenoron virginianum
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 063-03-001:
Tovara virginiana FAMILY Polygonaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Tovara virginiana
COMMON NAME:
Virginia Jumpseed
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_povi2_007_lvd
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_tovi2_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm230320_1703
March Greenville County SC
Chestnut Ridge Heritage Preserve
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Terry Gentry tmg_p4020057
April Greenville County SC
Chestnut Ridge Heritage Preserve
Leaves usually marked with a purplish/blackish, inverted "V" towards base, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm110522_657
May Greenville County SC
Firefly Forest
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JK Marlow jkm110522_697
May Greenville County SC
Firefly Forest
Leaves tapering to acuminate apices, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm120506_490
May Rabun County GA
Chattahoochee National Forest
The base of the leaf stalk forms a short sheath (ocrea) around the stem, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm120506_497
May Rabun County GA
Chattahoochee National Forest
Ocrea 10-20mm, margins truncate, surface strigose to tomentose, per Flora of North America.
COMPARE
ocreae of Jumpseed and Smartweed species
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JK Marlow jkm140614_862
June Rabun County GA
Chattahoochee National Forest
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JK Marlow jkm090711_023
July Greenville County SC
Chestnut Ridge Heritage Preserve
Juvenile leaves often have a purplish-brown chevron, but mature leaves are entirely green, per Weakley's Flora (2022).
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JK Marlow jkm0508e_17
August Oconee County SC
Flowers strung out along a slender terminal spike up to 18" long, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm120815_676
August Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
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JK Marlow jkm120815_681
August Haywood County NC
Corneille Bryan Native Garden
4 tepals ~ 0.1" long, with base of each flower or its stalk in a sheath, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm150808_652
August McDowell County? NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Tension in pedicel articulation is sufficient to throw mature achenes 3-4m, per Flora of North America.
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JK Marlow jkm210818_2848
August Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
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JK Marlow jkm210818_2851
August Greenville County SC
Tall Pines Wildlife Management Area
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Persicaria virginiana
FAMILY
Polygonaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Polygonum virginianum
FAMILY
Polygonaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Persicaria virginiana
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Studies of the southeastern United States flora (Horton, 1972)
Antenoron virginianum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 063-03-001:
Tovara virginiana
FAMILY
Polygonaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Tovara virginiana
1518
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: floodplains, moist forests, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common
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IS THE PLANT "ARMED"?
Stems, petioles and leaves unarmed
LEAVES:
Simple
Alternate
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Greenish-white
rarely pinkish
Bisexual
Irregularly 4-lobed calyx
Petals absent
Superior ovary
Inflorescence spikelike, interrupted
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Brown
Nutlet
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p130
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p208
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p293
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p061
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p084
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p032