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Persicaria amphibia ~ water smartweed

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Characteristics:

OBL
Michigan C Value: 6
also known as Polygonum amphibium and water knotweed
usually a relatively robust plant and at least partly upright
sheaths often fuzzy on sides, especially when the plant is terrestrial
sheaths may be glabrous when in water
sheaths are straight across
thick, terminal, rose–colored flower heads
usually only one or two flower heads
frequently upright in standing water
native

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