| Family | POLYGONACEAE |
| Genus species | Bistorta vivipara (L.) Delarbre |
| Synonyms | Polygonum viviparum L. |
| Bistorta americana Raf. | |
| Polygonum affine Wall. | |
| Habitat | scree |
| Altitude | 1200-5000m |
| Description | leaves narrowly lanceolate, 2-8cm long, long petiolate, flowers 3-4mm long in narrow, terminal spike, 5-10cm long, with purple bulbills at base |
| Size | 5-25cm |
| Color | white, rose |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | tuft |
| Cultivation | gravelly, humous, moist, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous, gravelly soil, semi-shade |
| Propagation | seed in spring, germ. 1-3 months, 13-18°C division in spring; cuttings in late spring and late summer |
| Territory |
Circumpolar
Europe Northern Europe (Finland , Fřroyar , Great Britain , Iceland , Ireland , Norway , Svalbard , Sweden ) Middle Europe (Austria , Czechoslovakia , Germany , Poland , Switzerland ) Southwestern Europe (France , Spain ) Southeastern Europe (Albania , Bulgaria , Italy , Romania , Yugoslavia ) Eastern Europe (Baltic States , Central European Russia , East European Russia , North European Russia , Northwest European Russia , Ukraine ) Asia-Temperate Siberia (Altay , Buryatiya , Chita , Irkutsk , Krasnoyarsk , Tuva , West Siberia , Yakutskiya ) Russian Far East (Amur , Kamchatka , Khabarovsk , Kuril Is. , Magadan , Primorye , Sakhalin ) Middle Asia (Kazakhstan , Kirgizistan , Tadzhikistan ) China (China North-Central ) Eastern Asia (Korea ) Asia-Tropical Indian Subcontinent (East Himalaya ) Indo-China (Myanmar ) Northern America Subarctic America (Aleutian Is. , Alaska , Greenland , Nunavut , Northwest Territories , Yukon ) Western Canada (British Columbia , Manitoba , Saskatchewan ) Eastern Canada (Labrador , New Brunswick , Ontario , Québec ) Northwestern U.S.A. (Colorado , Idaho , Montana , Oregon , Washington , Wyoming ) North-Central U.S.A. (Minnesota , South Dakota ) Northeastern U.S.A. (Maine , Michigan , New Hampshire , Vermont ) Southwestern U.S.A. (Arizona , Nevada , Utah ) South-Central U.S.A. (New Mexico) |
| Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
| Comments | POLYGONACEAE
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