Persicaria

Accepted species 65 Documented here 38 Family Polygonaceae

Accepted species 65 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Persicaria virginiana (L.) Gaertn. 3,106 documented
Persicaria longiseta (Bruijn) Kitag. 2,097 documented
Persicaria maculosa Gray 1,842 documented
Persicaria lapathifolia (L.) Delarbre 1,840 documented
Persicaria vivipara (L.) Ronse Decr. 1,380 documented
Persicaria bistorta (L.) Samp. 1,285 documented
Persicaria sagittata (L.) H.Gross 1,255 documented
Persicaria amphibia (L.) Delarbre 1,229 documented
Persicaria capitata (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) H.Gross 836 documented
Persicaria hydropiper (L.) Delarbre 611 documented
Persicaria decipiens (R.Br.) K.L.Wilson 537 documented
Persicaria punctata Small 453 documented
Persicaria pensylvanica (L.) M.Gómez 424 documented
Persicaria chinensis (L.) H.Gross 362 documented
Persicaria extremiorientalis (Vorosch.) Tzvelev 309 documented
Persicaria hydropiperoides (Michx.) Small 307 documented
Persicaria strigosa (R.Br.) H.Gross 246 documented
Persicaria arifolia (L.) Haraldson 227 documented
Persicaria madagascariensis (Meisn.) S.Ortiz & Paiva 161 documented
Persicaria orientalis (L.) Spach 151 documented
Persicaria nepalensis (Meisn.) Miyabe 138 documented
Persicaria attenuata (R.Br.) Soják 112 documented
Persicaria bicornis (Raf.) Nieuwl. 109 documented
Persicaria minor Opiz 92 documented
Persicaria amplexicaulis (D.Don) Ronse Decr. 86 documented
Persicaria glabra (Willd.) M.Gómez 64 documented
Persicaria dichotoma (Blume) Masam. 48 documented
Persicaria mitis (Schrank) Holub 38 documented
Persicaria barbata (L.) Hara 37 documented
Persicaria limbata (Meisn.) H.Hara 30 documented
Persicaria setacea Small 28 documented
Persicaria robustior (Small) E.P.Bicknell 18 documented
Persicaria acuminata (Kunth) M.Gómez 14 documented
Persicaria senegalensis (Meisn.) Soják 9 documented
Persicaria hirsuta (Walter) Small 8 documented
Persicaria meisneriana (Cham. & Schltdl.) M.Gómez 7 documented
Persicaria hispida (Kunth) M.Gómez 5 documented
Persicaria pulchra (Blume) Soják 4 documented
Persicaria segetum (Kunth) Small 4 below the evidence gate
Persicaria ferruginea (Wedd.) Soják 2 below the evidence gate
Persicaria alpina Gross. 0 below the evidence gate
Persicaria arcuata (Greene) Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Persicaria bungeana (Turcz.) Nakai 0 below the evidence gate
Persicaria caespitosa (Blume) Nakai 0 below the evidence gate
Persicaria campanulata (Hook.f.) Ronse Decr. 0 below the evidence gate
Persicaria cliopolitana (Hance) Yonek. & H.Ohashi 0 below the evidence gate
Persicaria dubia (Stein ex A.Braun) Fourr. 0 below the evidence gate
Persicaria foliosa (H.Lindb.) Kitag. 0 below the evidence gate
Persicaria glandulopilosa (De Wild.) Soják 0 below the evidence gate
Persicaria glomerata (Dammer) S.Ortiz & Paiva 0 below the evidence gate
Persicaria hybrida (Chaub.) Soják 0 below the evidence gate
Persicaria hystricula (J.Schust.) Soják 0 below the evidence gate
Persicaria lanigera (R.Br.) Soják 0 below the evidence gate
Persicaria laxmannii Gross 0 below the evidence gate
Persicaria maculata (Sibth.) Gray 0 below the evidence gate
Persicaria nogueirae S.Ortiz & Paiva 0 below the evidence gate
Persicaria obtusifolia (Täckh. & Boulos) Greuter & Burdet 0 below the evidence gate
Persicaria paraguayensis (Wedd.) S.T.Kim & Donoghue 0 below the evidence gate
Persicaria poiretii (Meisn.) K.L.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Persicaria setosula (A.Rich.) K.L.Wilson 0 below the evidence gate
Persicaria sinuata (Royle ex Bab.) Rajbh. & R.Joshi 0 below the evidence gate
Persicaria stagnina (Buch.-Ham. ex Meisn.) Qaiser 0 below the evidence gate
Persicaria tenella (Blume) Hara 0 below the evidence gate
Persicaria tinctoria (Ait.) H.Gross 0 below the evidence gate
Persicaria weyrichii (F.Schmidt) H.Gross 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.