Pennsylvania Smartweed

(Polygonum pensylvanicum)

Characteristics

Seedling	Leaves	Flowers

Growing habits: Tall, erect summer annual herb

Root anatomy: Fibrous roots from taproot

Leaf anatomy: Leaves alternate, simple, lanceolate, pointed at tip

Reproduction: Many flowers in a dense spike at ends of stem/branches, pink or occasionally white

^{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}