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|accepted_name=Persicaria
|accepted_authority=(Linnaeus) Miller
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gard. Dict. Abr. ed.
|place=4, vol. 3. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Smartweed
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Persicaria
|authority=Linnaeus
|publication_title=Sp. Pl.
|publication_place=1: 360. 1753
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Polygonaceae;Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae;Persicaria
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polygonaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Persicaria]]</div></div>
|etymology=Latin, persica, peach, and - aria, pertaining to, alluding to resemblance of leaves of some species
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 216, 217, 218, 479, 481, 581, 594, 597
|treatment_page=page 574
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial or annual (sometimes suffrutescent in <i>P. wallichii</i>); taprooted or fibrous-rooted; sometimes rhizomatous or stoloniferous. <b>Stems</b> erect or, sometimes, prostrate or scandent, simple or branched, glabrous or pubescent, rarely with recurved prickles. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous, mostly cauline, alternate, petiolate or sessile; ocrea persistent or disintegrating with age and deciduous entirely or distally, usually tan, brown, or reddish, chartaceous or partially to entirely foliaceous, rarely coriaceous proximally and chartaceous distally, glabrous or scabrous to variously pubescent, never 2-lobed distally; blade lanceolate or ovate to hastate or sagittate, margins entire or, rarely, hastately lobed. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal or terminal and axillary, spikelike, paniclelike, or capitate; peduncle present. <b>Pedicels</b> present or absent. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual (often functionally unisexual in <i>P. amphibia</i> and <i>P. hydropiperoides</i>), 1–14 per ocreate fascicle, base not stipelike; perianth white, greenish white, roseate, red, or purple, campanulate or urceolate, rarely rotate, rarely becoming fleshy in fruit, glabrous, sometimes glandular-punctate, accrescent or nonaccrescent; tepals 4–5, connate 1/4–2/3 their lengths (less than 1/5 their lengths in <i>P. wallichii</i>), petaloid, dimorphic, outer larger than inner; stamens 5–8, filaments distinct or connate basally, outer ones sometimes adnate to perianth tube, glabrous; anthers yellow, pink, or red, elliptic to ovate; styles 2–3, erect to spreading or reflexed, distinct or connate; stigmas capitate. <b>Achenes</b> included or exserted, brown or dark brown to black, not winged, discoid, biconvex, 2–3-gonous, or spheroidal, glabrous. <b>Seeds</b>: embryo curved. <b>x</b> = 10, 11, 12.</span><!--

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|distribution=Nearly worldwide.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 100 (26 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Opinions vary widely about the circumscription and infrageneric classification of <i>Persicaria</i>. The concept employed here generally follows L.-P. Ronse Decraene et al. (2000) and K. Haraldson (1978), with five sections recognized in the flora. <i>Aconogonon</i> and <i>Bistorta</i>, which often are included in <i>Persicaria</i> or in <i>Polygonum</i> in the broad sense, are treated here as separate genera.</p>
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==Key==
<div class="treatment-key-group">
  <h3 class="treatment-key-header" id="key-0">Key to the Sections of Persicaria</h3>
{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Styles exserted, persistent on achenes; inflorescences spikelike, interrupted
|[[Persicaria sect. Tovara|Persicaria sect. Tovara]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Styles included, rarely exserted, deciduous; inflorescences capitate, paniclelike, or spikelike, uninterrupted or interrupted
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Stems with recurved prickles, scandent or, rarely, ascending to erect
|[[Persicaria sect. Echinocaulon|Persicaria sect. Echinocaulon]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Stems unarmed, usually erect or ascending, rarely prostrate or decumbent
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Inflorescences capitate; petioles usually winged, auriculate
|[[Persicaria sect. Cephalophilon|Persicaria sect. Cephalophilon]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Inflorescence spikelike or paniclelike; petioles not winged, not auriculate
|[[#key-0-4| > 4]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Inflorescences paniclelike; perianths rotate; tepals connate less than 1/ 5 their lengths
|[[Persicaria sect. Rubrivena|Persicaria sect. Rubrivena]]
|-id=key-0-4
|4
|Inflorescences spikelike; perianths campanulate; tepals connate 1/ 2/ 3 their lengths
|[[Persicaria sect. Persicaria|Persicaria sect. Persicaria]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Persicaria
|author=Harold R. Hinds†;Craig C. Freeman
|authority=(Linnaeus) Miller
|rank=genus
|parent rank=subfamily
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Persicaria
|family=Polygonaceae
|illustrator=Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
|distribution=Nearly worldwide.
|reference=None
|publication title=Gard. Dict. Abr. ed.
|publication year=1754
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_1175.xml
|subfamily=Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae
|genus=Persicaria
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