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Tall Jointweed
Polygonella gracilis
Polygonum tenerum, common name tall jointweed, slender jointweed, or wireweed, is a species of flowering plant. It grows in the southeastern United States including parts of Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and southern Alabama. It is an annual in the Polygonaceae family. It grows in sandhill and dry pineland habitats. It has small wiry stems and can grow to five feet tall. The white and pink flowers. It is dioecious. It produces reddish-brown achenes
Polygonella gracilis is a synonym.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 167218.