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Polygonum aviculare (Prostrate knotweed)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Polygonum aviculare or common knotgrass is a plant related to buckwheat and dock. It is also called prostrate knotweed, birdweed, pigweed and lowgrass. It is an annual found in fields and wasteland, with white flowers from June to October. It is widespread across many countries in temperate regions, apparently native to Eurasia and North America, naturalized in temperate parts of the Southern Hemisphere.
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Infraspecies

Polygonum aviculare aviculare (prostrate knotweed) (Attributes)
Polygonum aviculare boreale (northern knotweed) (Attributes)
Polygonum aviculare buxiforme (Box knotweed)
Polygonum aviculare excelsius
Polygonum aviculare neglectum
Polygonum aviculare rurivagum
Polygonum aviculare sabulosum
Polygonum aviculare var. erectum
Polygonum aviculare var. fusco-ochreatum
Polygonum aviculare var. procumbens

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Erysiphe polygoni (Beet Powdery Mildew)[3]
Peronospora polygoni[3]
Uromyces polygoni-avicularis[3]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 2Agüero, M. L., Borboroglu, P. G., & Esler, D. (2014). Trophic ecology of breeding white-headed steamer-duck (Tachyeres leucocephalus). Waterbirds, 37(1), 88-93.
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 4Gonzalez-Acuna, D., Riquelme Salazar, P., Cruzatt Molina, J., Lopez Sepulveda, P., Skewes Ramm, O., Figueroa, R., & Ricardo, A. (2006). Diet of the Chilean Tinamou (Nothoprocta perdicaria) in south central Chile. Ornitología Neotropical, 17(3), 467-472.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0