User:Lmosby2020/Persicaria bicornis

Description
Persicaria bicornis is also known as Pink smartweed. It grows annually from June to October in moist, disturbed places, and is typically 20-180cm tall. It can be found in places like ditches, shorelines of ponds, and reservoirs in Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, and Texas amongst other places. Its leaves are brown and cylindric, and the flowers are pink with 5 sepals. The flower contains 6-8 stamens with pink or red anthers. It also usually contains 2-3 styles as well at the base of the flower,

Taxonomy
Kingdom: Plantae

Phylum: Tracheophyta --

Class: Equisetopsida, --

sub class: Magnoliopsida--

Order:Caryophyllales

Family: Polygonaceae

Genus: Persicaria

Species: bicornis

Distribution
dicot

USA: It can be found in places like ditches, shorelines of ponds, and reservoirs in Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, and Texas amongst other places.

Ukraine

Synonyms
Dioctis bicorne (raf 1836)

Persicaria longistyla (small) small (synonym)

Polygonum bicorne Raf. (synonym)

Polygonum longistylum small (synonym)