Water Pepper
Water Pepper
Polygonum hydropiper L.
Polygonaceae (Smartweed Family)
▲ ▼ mature plants
▲ ▼ flowering mature plants
▲ ▼ inflorescences showing spacing between flowers
▲ stem, leaves and ochrea
Water pepper:
- summer annual, similar to Pennsylvania smartweed in appearance, but leaves are narrower and sometimes longer, and inflorescence has individual florets more spaced out on the main rachis
- not usually a weed problem--a native plant of streambanks and wetland areas