Species
Bistorta bistortoides (American bistort)
Bistorta bistortoides. Photo: (c) Susan, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Bistorta bistortoides (American bistort, western bistort, smokeweed, mountain meadow knotweed, mountain buckwheat or mountain meadow buckwheat) is a perennial herb in the buckwheat and knotweed family Polygonaceae. The species name remains unresolved.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Plantae (Plants)
- Phylum: Tracheophyta (Vascular plants)
- Subphylum: Angiospermae (Flowering plants)
- Class: Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
- Order: Caryophyllales (Pinks, cactuses, and allies)
- Family: Polygonaceae (Knotweed family)
- Subfamily: Polygonoideae
- Tribe: Persicarieae
- Subtribe: Koenigiinae
- Genus: Bistorta (Bistorts)
- Species: Bistorta bistortoides (American bistort)
- Genus: Bistorta (Bistorts)
- Subtribe: Koenigiinae
- Tribe: Persicarieae
- Subfamily: Polygonoideae
- Family: Polygonaceae (Knotweed family)
- Order: Caryophyllales (Pinks, cactuses, and allies)
- Class: Magnoliopsida (Dicots)
- Subphylum: Angiospermae (Flowering plants)
- Phylum: Tracheophyta (Vascular plants)
- Kingdom: Plantae (Plants)