Polygonaceae

Genera 57 Accepted species 1,383 Documented here 414 Coverage 30%

We document 414 of the 1,383 accepted species in Polygonaceae. The rest are listed, with their authorities and their identifiers, inside their genus. They have no page of their own because we could not find three openly licensed photographs of them, and a page without evidence is not a page we are willing to publish.

Genera we document 40 of 57

GenusDocumentedAccepted species
Eriogonum 158 255
Rumex 64 152
Persicaria 38 65
Polygonum 30 218
Chorizanthe 28 64
Coccoloba 18 179
Polygonella 9 11
Rheum 8 44
Muehlenbeckia 7 12
Fallopia 5 16
Oxygonum 4 24
Oxytheca 3 3
Reynoutria 3 7
Ruprechtia 3 35
Sidotheca 3 3
Triplaris 3 19
Antigonon 2 3
Atraphaxis 2 32
Calligonum 2 158
Fagopyrum 2 26
Lastarriaea 2 2
Mucronea 2 2
Brunnichia 1 1
Centrostegia 1 1
Dedeckera 1 1
Duma 1 3
Emex 1 2
Gilmania 1 1
Goodmania 1 1
Gymnopodium 1 2
Harfordia 1 1
Hollisteria 1 1
Koenigia 1 1
Nemacaulis 1 1
Neomillspaughia 1 2
Oxyria 1 2
Pterostegia 1 1
Salta 1 1
Stenogonum 1 2
Symmeria 1 1

Genera we do not yet document 17 genera

Real genera, accepted by World Flora Online, for which we have not yet found three commercially licensed photographs of any species. They are listed rather than hidden.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Family circumscription, accepted names, authorities. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.