Koenigia weyrichii | |
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Koenigia weyrichii on Mount Nasu, Tochigi prefecture, Japan | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Caryophyllales |
Family: | Polygonaceae |
Genus: | Koenigia |
Species: | K. weyrichii |
Binomial name | |
Koenigia weyrichii (F.Schmidt) T.M.Schust. & Reveal [1] | |
Synonyms [1] | |
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Koenigia weyrichii (synonym Persicaria weyrichii), [1] the Chinese knotweed [2] or Weyrich's knotweed, is a large, perennial, rhizomatous herb native to northeastern Asia in Kamchatka, Sakhalin, and northern and central Japan. [1] It is also locally naturalised in northern Europe.
It is one of the parents of the cultivated hybrid Koenigia × fennica, the other being Koenigia alpina . [3] [4]