| 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]