Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador
Flora of Newfoundland and Labrador
Polygonaceae/Polygonacéees - Buckwheat Family
Fagopyrum tataricum (L.) Gaertn. [E]
En: Tartarian buckwheat, green buckwheat, India-wheat
Fr: sarrasin de Tartarie, renouée de Tartarie
Provincial Status: E [ephemeral; not persistent]
Range: Asia; wNfld., cultivated, occasionally found along roadsides, intr. NS-QC, MB, and AB; ephemeral in wNfld., ON, and SK.

              [=Polygonum tataricum L.  (basionym)]
              [=Fagopyrum tataricum (L.) Gaertn. var. vulgare Alef.]
              [=Phegopyrum tataricum (L.) Peterm.]

[Fagopyrum tataricum is reported, as Polygonum tataricum in Scoggan (1978), as spreading from cultivation in Nfld.  This species has not been reported in recent years and is now considered ephemeral in NL.]

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