- Family: Polygonaceae Juss.
Bistorta (L.) Scop.
Native to:
Afghanistan, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Altay, Amur, Arizona, Assam, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colorado, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, East Himalaya, Finland, France, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Idaho, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Kuril Is., Labrador, Laos, Magadan, Maine, Manchuria, Manitoba, Mexico Northeast, Michigan, Minnesota, Mongolia, Montana, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Northwest Territorie, Norway, Nunavut, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Qinghai, Québec, Romania, Sakhalin, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, South European Russi, Spain, Svalbard, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Thailand, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Tuva, Ukraine, Utah, Uzbekistan, Vermont, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yugoslavia, Yukon
Introduced into:
Massachusetts, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia
- Bistorta abukumensis Yonek., Iketsu & H.Ohashi
- Bistorta affinis (D.Don) Greene
- Bistorta albiflora Miyam. & H.Ohba
- Bistorta alopecuroides (Turcz. ex Kom.) Nakai
- Bistorta amplexicaulis (D.Don) Greene
- Bistorta attenuata Kom.
- Bistorta attenuatifolia Miyam. & H.Ohba
- Bistorta bistortoides (Pursh) Small
- Bistorta burmanica Yonek. & H.Ohashi
- Bistorta coriacea (Sam.) Yonek. & H.Ohashi
- Bistorta diopetes H.Ohba & S.Akiyama
- Bistorta elliptica (Willd. ex Spreng.) V.V.Petrovsky, D.F.Murray & Elven
- Bistorta emodi (Meisn.) H.Hara
- Bistorta griersonii Yonek. & H.Ohashi
- Bistorta griffithii (Hook.f.) Grierson
- Bistorta hayachinensis (Makino) H.Gross
- Bistorta honanensis (H.W.Kung) Yonek. & H.Ohashi
- Bistorta incana (Nakai) Nakai
- Bistorta jaljalensis H.Ohba & S.Akiyama
- Bistorta krascheninnikovii N.A.Ivanova
- Bistorta longispicata Yonek. & H.Ohashi
- Bistorta ludlowii Yonek. & H.Ohashi
- Bistorta macrophylla (D.Don) Soják
- Bistorta manshuriensis (Petrov ex Kom.) Kom.
- Bistorta milletii H.Lév.
- Bistorta milletioides H.Ohba & S.Akiyama
- Bistorta ochotensis Kom.
- Bistorta officinalis Delarbre
- Bistorta paleacea (Wall. ex Hook.f.) Yonek. & H.Ohashi
- Bistorta perpusilla (Hook.f.) Greene
- Bistorta plumosa (Small) Greene
- Bistorta purpureonervosa (A.J.Li) Yonek. & H.Ohashi
- Bistorta × rhaetica (Brügger) Dostál
- Bistorta rubra Yonek. & H.Ohashi
- Bistorta sherei H.Ohba & S.Akiyama
- Bistorta sinomontana (Sam.) Miyam.
- Bistorta subscaposa (Diels) Petrov
- Bistorta suffulta (Maxim.) Greene ex H.Gross
- Bistorta tenuicaulis (Bisset & S.Moore) Nakai
- Bistorta tenuifolia (H.W.Kung) Miyam. & H.Ohba
- Bistorta tubistipulis Miyam. & H.Ohba
- Bistorta vacciniifolia (Wall. ex Meisn.) Greene
- Bistorta vivipara (L.) Delarbre
Bistorta (L.) Scop. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Meth. Pl.: 24 (1754)
Accepted by
- Schuster, T.M., Reveal, J.L., Bayly, M.J. & Kron, K.A. (2015). An updated molecular phylogeny of Polygonoideae (Polygonaceae): relationships of Oxygonum, Pteroxygonum, and Rumex, and a new circumscription of Koenigia Taxon 64: 1188-1208.
Not accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (1996). World Checklist of Seed Plants 2(1, 2): 1-492. MIM, Deurne. [Cited as Persicaria.]
Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2021. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0