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§1 Plant

Polygonum arifolium L.

vernacular halberdleaf tearthumb — species · Polygonaceae


USDA
POAR6
GBIF
7537964 syn.
Rank
species
halberdleaf tearthumb (Polygonum arifolium)
Platephotograph · Sara RallCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb, Vine
Duration
Annual
Group
Dicot
Family
Polygonaceae Juss.
Genus
Polygonum
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Native
  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 374 counties across 25 states/territories
Legend Native · 374 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 374 counties across 25 states/territories.

Delaware view state ↗ 1 N
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 N
Georgia view state ↗ 1 N
Illinois view state ↗ 3 N
Indiana view state ↗ 27 N
Kentucky view state ↗ 15 N
Louisiana view state ↗ 1 N
Maine view state ↗ 10 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 N
Michigan view state ↗ 10 N
Minnesota view state ↗ 12 N
Missouri view state ↗ 1 N
New Hampshire view state ↗ 6 N
New Jersey view state ↗ 19 N
New York view state ↗ 40 N
North Carolina view state ↗ 16 N
Ohio view state ↗ 36 N
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 49 N
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 N
South Carolina view state ↗ 3 N
Tennessee view state ↗ 3 N
Vermont view state ↗ 8 N
Virginia view state ↗ 64 N
West Virginia view state ↗ 7 N
Wisconsin view state ↗ 25 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/POAR6 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/7537964 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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