Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Persicaria strigosa
Common name
Spotted Knotweed
Family
Polygonaceae
Where found
Moist places and open swamps. Coast and ranges north from Nowra. Occasionally farther south.
Notes
Herb, prostrate to sprawling. Stems to 1.5 m long, slender, bristly. Leaves alternating along the stems, 3–7 cm long, 15–32 mm wide, with sparse hairs mostly restricted to the veins and margins, bases with pointed lobes, stipular sheath (ocrea) with scattered antrorse hairs, upper margin hairless or with scattered fringing hairs to 1 mm long. Flowers with 4-5 pink or white 'petals', each 3.0–3.7 mm long. Inflorescence of 2–4 branches with small almost round to oval flower clusters 5–10 mm long.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Persicaria~strigosa (accessed 30 January, 2021)
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