Persicaria meisneriana(Cham. & Schltdl.) M.Gómez

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WFO wfo-0001234855 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Persicaria meisneriana, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. a Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-12-21 / obs. 29370747
Persicaria meisneriana, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. b Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29370738
Persicaria meisneriana, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. c Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29370741
Persicaria meisneriana, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. d Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29370772
Persicaria meisneriana, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. e Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29370751
Persicaria meisneriana, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. f Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29370754
Persicaria meisneriana, photographed by Erwin Sieben
fig. g Erwin Sieben, CC0 1.0 / obs. 91733150

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 3605570
Filed as
Persicaria meisneriana var. beyrichiana (Cham. & Schltdl.) C.C.Freeman
Det. by
Atha, D. E.
Collected
E. Mellinger 1957-10-25
Origin
US
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 24 botanical countries

Regions where Persicaria meisneriana is native: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Southeast, South Carolina, Texas, Argentina Northeast, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, French Guiana, Honduras, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay AlabamaFloridaGeorgiaLouisianaMexico GulfMexico SoutheastSouth CarolinaTexasArgentina NortheastBoliviaBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEl SalvadorFrench GuianaHondurasParaguayPeruUruguay
Native distribution of Persicaria meisneriana, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Bolivia BOL
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
El Salvador ELS
French Guiana FRG
Honduras HON
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Uruguay URU
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Louisiana LOU
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Southeast MXT
South Carolina SCA
Texas TEX

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 5 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Polygonum beyrichianum Cham. & Schltdl.
  • Polygonum chamissoeanum Wedd.
  • Polygonum meisnerianum Cham. & Schltdl.
  • Polygonum meisnerianum var. beyrichianum (Cham. & Schltdl.) Meisn.
  • Polygonum meisnerianum var. setosum Chodat & Hassl.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol POME4. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.