Knotweed
Persicaria lapathifolia ?
Observed in marshy area near Eldoret, Kenya, Africa. January 2014.
HERBACEOUS PLANT: Herbaceous plant sometimes weak-stemmed and supported by neighboring plants. Mostly less than 2 m.
FLOWERS: The flowers are pink to mostly white and arrayed on long, drooping spikes at the apex of the stems.
LEAVES: Leaves are lance-shaped to linear - almost willow-like and thus another commonly applied name, Willow Weed.
RANGE: This plant is found any many areas and habitats around the world, but generally in wet, disturbed soils.
FRUIT: Seeds solitary in each flower ovary and enclosed in the hardened ovary. This species has round, flattened and shiny.
UNARMED.
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