New York Metropolitan Flora

Fallopia dumetorum (L.) Holub - Climbing False Buckwheat, European Climbing Buckwheat, Corpse-bindweed

Non-native

By Science Staff

Not peer reviewed

Last Modified 01/20/2012

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Fallopia dumetorum

This map is tentative.  Formerly included within and morphologically similar to F. scandens, the abundance of F. dumetorum in our flora is unclear and a re-examination of herbarium specimens in needed.

= Polygonum scandens var. dumetorum (L.) Gleason

= Polygonum dumetorum L. 

Common Names

Climbing False Buckwheat, European Climbing Buckwheat, Corpse-bindweed

Nomenclature

Synonyms:

Polygonum scandens var. dumetorum (L.) Gleason

Polygonum dumetorum L.