Polygonum aviculare

TaxID: 137693

Basic Information

Polygonum aviculare

Doorweed, Wireweed

Polygonum aviculare or common knotgrass is a plant related to buckwheat and dock. It is also called prostrate knotweed, birdweed, pigweed and lowgrass. It is an annual found in fields and wasteland, with white flowers from June to October. It is widespread across many countries in temperate regions, apparently native to Eurasia, naturalized in temperate parts of the Southern Hemisphere.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Streptophyta

Magnoliopsida

Caryophyllales

Polygonaceae

Polygonum

aviculare

Unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

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(c) Sarah Johnson@BY
Polygonum aviculare
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(c) Dilrukshan Priyantha Wijesinghe@BY
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Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (2 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Nicaragua Absent —
Thailand Quarantine pests —

Distribution (97 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Afghanistan Present —
Albania Present —
Algeria Present —
Andorra Present —
Argentina Present —
Armenia Present —
Australia Present —
Austria Present —
Azerbaijan Present —
Belgium Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (1 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Assembly Accession Assembly Level Genome Size(Mb) Contig N50(Kb) Scaffold N50(Kb) BUSCO% Downloads Actions
GCA_934047395.1 Scaffold 360 10315 16612 -

Transcriptomes (3 records)

Data source: NCBI.

Run ID Tissue Developmental Stage Sex Read Count Location Actions
SRR18011482 Vegetative vegetative period - 28617303 China: Yunan
ERR9435018 - - hermaphrodite and monoecious 19874916 -
ERR15551358 - - hermaphrodite and monoecious 45966018 -

DNA Barcodes (103 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
YNPBP778-23 - trnL-F 589 United States 2023-07-14 45.02471, -110.70064
YNPBP778-23 - trnH-psbA 421 United States 2023-07-14 45.02471, -110.70064
YNPBP778-23 - rbcL 553 United States 2023-07-14 45.02471, -110.70064
YNPBP778-23 - matK 803 United States 2023-07-14 45.02471, -110.70064
WAT361-12 - rbcLa 553 Canada 2012-06-06 43.5485, -80.2503
WAT166-12 - rbcLa 553 Canada 2006-11-29 -
VEMSH385-13 - rbcLa 552 Canada 2012-08-23 45.551, -73.172
VEMSH358-13 - rbcLa 536 Canada 2012-08-07 45.535, -73.149
VEMSH358-13 - matK 747 Canada 2012-08-07 45.535, -73.149
VEMSH276-13 - rbcLa 570 Canada 2012-07-04 45.535, -73.149
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Literature