- Family : POLYGONACEAE
(Buckwheat Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : JANGLI PALAK FAMILY (जंगली पालक फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Polygonaceae
- Synonym(s) : Antenoron virginianum (L.) Roberty & Vautier; Polygonum virginianum L.; Sunania virginiana (L.) H.Hara; Tovara virginiana (L.) Raf.
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Persicaria virginiana (L.) Gaertn.
- Habit : Herb
- Key identification features : Herbs, up to 1.5 m tall; branches hollow, sparsely hispids; Leaves elliptic to elliptic-Ianceolate; stipules small, hispid; Flowers in long, slender, peduncled racemes, red; Nuts ellipsoid, flattened, pale brown.
- Flower, Fruit : June- January
- Distribution :
- Arunachal Pradesh : Siang, Subansiri, Tirap
- Native : Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Y
- Exotic/Native : Exotic
- World Distribution : Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Québec, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin
- Literature :
- G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 317-318
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Tovara virginiana. Downloaded on 6 December 2024.
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