| Family | POLYGONACEAE |
| Genus species | Bistorta vivipara (L.) Delarbre |
| Bibliography | Fl. Auvergne, ed. 2, 2: 516 (1800) |
| Native Range | Subarctic and Temperate Northern Hemisphere |
| Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
| 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 | perennial |
| 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 |
| Synonyms | Bistorta americana Raf. Bistorta bulbifera (Royle) Greene Bistorta insularis (Maximova) Soják Bistorta littoralis Greene Bistorta macounii (Small ex Macoun) Greene Bistorta ophioglossa Greene Bistorta scopulina Greene Bistorta vivipara var. alpina Gray Bistorta vivipara var. angustifolia Nakai Bistorta vivipara ssp. fugax (Small) Soják Bistorta vivipara ssp. macounii (Small ex Macoun) Soják Bistorta vivipara f. ramosa Nakai Bistorta vivipara f. roessleri (Beck) Kitag. Bistorta vivipara var. roessleri (Beck) F.Maek. Persicaria americana (Raf.) Ohwi Persicaria sagittata var. americana (Meisn.) Miyabe Persicaria vivipara (L.) Ronse Decr. Polygonum angustifolium D.Don Polygonum blancheanum Gand. Polygonum bracteatum Spreng. Polygonum bulbiferum Royle ex Bab. Polygonum camptostachys Gand. Polygonum chevrolatii Gand. Polygonum fugax Small Polygonum insulare Maximova Polygonum littorale (Greene) Fedde Polygonum macounii Small ex Macoun Polygonum proliferum Houtt. Polygonum renii L.C.Wang Polygonum sagittatum var. americanum (Raf.) Meisn. Polygonum scopulinum (Greene) Fedde Polygonum viviparum L. Polygonum viviparum var. alpinum Wahlenb. Polygonum viviparum var. capitatum Torr. Polygonum viviparum f. elatior Kurtz Polygonum viviparum f. linearifolium J.Q.Fu Polygonum viviparum var. macounii (Small ex Macoun) Hultén Polygonum viviparum f. nanum Bolzon Polygonum viviparum var. pseudobistorta J.Rousseau Polygonum viviparum f. pusillum Kurtz Polygonum viviparum var. ramiflorum L.Villar Polygonum viviparum f. ramosum (Nakai) T.Shimizu Polygonum viviparum f. roessleri Beck Polygonum viviparum var. subacaule Pursh |
| Territory | 0 Circumpolar 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe (FIN Finland, FOR Fřroyar, GRB Great Britain, ICE Iceland, IRE Ireland, NOR Norway, SVA Svalbard, SWE Sweden) 11 Middle Europe (AUT Austria, CZE Czechoslovakia, GER Germany, POL Poland, SWI Switzerland) 12 Southwestern Europe (FRA France, SPA Spain) 13 Southeastern Europe (ALB Albania, BUL Bulgaria, ITA Italy, ROM Romania, YUG Yugoslavia) 14 Eastern Europe (BLT Baltic States, RUC Central European Russia, RUE East European Russia, RUN North European Russia, RUW Northwest European Russia, UKR Ukraine) 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, BRY Buryatiya, CTA Chita, IRK Irkutsk, KRA Krasnoyarsk, TVA Tuva, WSB West Siberia, YAK Yakutskiya) 31 Russian Far East (AMU Amur, KAM Kamchatka, KHA Khabarovsk, KUR Kuril Is., MAG Magadan, PRM Primorye, SAK Sakhalin) 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan, KGZ Kirgizistan, TZK Tadzhikistan) 36 China (CHN China North-Central) 38 Eastern Asia (KOR Korea) 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (EHM East Himalaya) 41 Indo-China (MYA Myanmar) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ALU Aleutian Is., ASK Alaska, GNL Greenland, NUN Nunavut, NWT Northwest Territories, YUK Yukon) 71 Western Canada (BRC British Columbia, MAN Manitoba, SAS Saskatchewan) 72 Eastern Canada (LAB Labrador, NBR New Brunswick, ONT Ontario, QUE Québec) 73 Northwestern U.S.A. (COL Colorado, IDA Idaho, MNT Montana, ORE Oregon, WAS Washington, WYO Wyoming) 74 North-Central U.S.A. (MIN Minnesota, SDA South Dakota) 75 Northeastern U.S.A. (MAI Maine, MIC Michigan, NWH New Hampshire, VER Vermont) 76 Southwestern U.S.A. (ARI Arizona, NEV Nevada, UTA Utah) 77 South-Central U.S.A. (NWM New Mexico) |