Polygonum polystachyum
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Polygonum polystachyum, Wall. Shrubby, glabrous, or pubescent perennial, 3-6 ft., the branches grooved: lvs. petioled or nearly sessile, oblong-lanceolate, narrow- acuminate, usually contracted and more or less cordate or truncate at base: fls. white or pink, 1/4in. diam., in large thyrse-like spreading terminal panicles with branches erect or decurved and very slender pedicels; 2 outer sepals much smaller than the inner. Himalaya, 7,000-14,000 ft. altitude; Afghanistan. G.C. III. 53, suppl. May 17. G.M. 52:929. M.D.G. 1896:373, 385. —An excellent plant for late autumn bloom, in moist places.
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