Persicaria perfoliata (L.) H. Gross
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- Family
- Polygonaceae
- Botanical Name
- Persicaria perfoliata (L.) H. Gross
- Common Name
- Mile-a-minute Weed, Mile-a-minute Vine, Asiatic Tearthumb
- Synonym(s)
- Polygonum perfoliatum L.
- Flora of Virginia Name/Status
- Persicaria perfoliata (L.) H. Gross
- Comments
- Habitat
- Roadsides, clearings, disturbed forests, disturbed outcrops, alluvial fields, flood-scoured bars and shores; increasingly appearing in forested settings, especially following disturbances such as logging or windthrows. Currently frequent to locally common in the northernmost Piedmont counties; scattered elsewhere in the northern half of the state, but highly invasive and evidently increasing its range.
- Native Status
- Introduced
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