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Persicaria attenuata pulchra (pale smartweed; nodding smartweed; dock-leaf smartweed; curlytop knotweed; curlytop smartweed; curltop ladysthumb; smartweed)

Synonyms: Persicaria pulchra; Polygonum pulchrum (homotypic)

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium-High
Height [2]  39 inches (1 m)
Lifespan [2]  Annual
Structure [4]  Herb
Light Preference [3]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [3]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [3]  Rich
Soil Moisture [3]  Moist

Protected Areas

Predators

Pelenomus quadricorniger[5]
Pelenomus quadrituberculatus[5]
Rhinoncus bruchoides[5]
Tragelaphus spekii (sitatunga)[6]

Providers

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2PLANTATT - Attributes of British and Irish Plants: Status, Size, Life History, Geography and Habitats, M. O. Hill, C. D. Preston & D. B. Roy, Biological Records Centre, NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (2004)
♦ 3ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 6Understanding sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekii) habitats through diet analysis in Rushebeya-Kanyabaha wetland, Uganda, Joseph Ndawula, Mnason Tweheyo, David M. Tumusiime and Gerald Eilu, Afr. J. Ecol., 49, 481–489
♦ 7Robertson, C. Flowers and insects lists of visitors of four hundred and fifty three flowers. 1929. The Science Press Printing Company Lancaster, PA.
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