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bistorts
Bistorta
Bistorta is a genus of flowering plants in the Polygonaceae family. As of February 2019 about 40 species are accepted. It has been supported as a separate clade by molecular phylogenetic analysis. Bistorta species are native throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere, as far south as Mexico in North America and Thailand in Asia.
43 branches of this genus, most-observed first
common bistort
speciesBistorta officinalis
alpine bistort
speciesBistorta vivipara
American bistort
speciesBistorta bistortoides
red bistort
speciesBistorta amplexicaulis
Meadow Bistort
speciesBistorta plumosa
Bistorta carnea
speciesBistorta carnea
Himalayan bistort
speciesBistorta affinis
Bistorta elliptica
speciesBistorta elliptica
Bistorta macrophylla
speciesBistorta macrophylla
Bistorta vacciniifolia
speciesBistorta vacciniifolia
Bistorta suffulta
speciesBistorta suffulta
Bistorta alopecuroides
speciesBistorta alopecuroides
Bistorta griffithii
speciesBistorta griffithii
Bistorta tenuicaulis
speciesBistorta tenuicaulis
Asian bistort
speciesBistorta manshuriensis
Bistorta paleacea
speciesBistorta paleacea
Bistorta sinomontana
speciesBistorta sinomontana
Bistorta hayachinensis
speciesBistorta hayachinensis
Hairy bistort
speciesBistorta ochotensis
Bistorta subscaposa
speciesBistorta subscaposa
Bistorta emodi
speciesBistorta emodi
Bistorta rubra
speciesBistorta rubra
Bistorta coriacea
speciesBistorta coriacea
Tiny Knotweed
speciesBistorta perpusilla
Bistorta abukumensis
speciesBistorta abukumensis
Bistorta attenuata
speciesBistorta attenuata
Bistorta albiflora
speciesBistorta albiflora
Bistorta attenuatifolia
speciesBistorta attenuatifolia
Bistorta burmanica
speciesBistorta burmanica
Bistorta diopetes
speciesBistorta diopetes
Bistorta griersonii
speciesBistorta griersonii
Bistorta incana
speciesBistorta incana
Bistorta jaljalensis
speciesBistorta jaljalensis
Bistorta krascheninnikovii
speciesBistorta krascheninnikovii
Bistorta longispicata
speciesBistorta longispicata
Bistorta ludlowii
speciesBistorta ludlowii
Bistorta milletii
speciesBistorta milletii
Bistorta milletioides
speciesBistorta milletioides
Bistorta purpureonervosa
speciesBistorta purpureonervosa
Bistorta sherei
speciesBistorta sherei
Bistorta tenuifolia
speciesBistorta tenuifolia
Bistorta tubistipulis
speciesBistorta tubistipulis
Bistorta honanensis
speciesBistorta honanensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Living Images of Plants
Otto Brunfels · 1532 · p.72
The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation
Brunschwig, Hieronymus · 1505 · p.194
Living Images of Plants
Otto Brunfels · 1532 · p.68
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.807
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.805
On Medical Materials in Six Books
Dioscorides · 1550 · p.507
De medicinali materia libri sex
Dioscorides · 1552 · p.515
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.587
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.1118
Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.1179
History of Rare Plants of Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1576 · p.556
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.352
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Bistorta in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
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 72009.