Index / Search / Polygonum douglasii ssp. johnstonii

§1 Plant

Polygonum douglasii Greene ssp. johnstonii (Munz) J.C. Hickman

vernacular Johnston's knotweed — subspecies · Polygonaceae


USDA
PODOJ2
GBIF
7219337 syn.
Rank
subspecies
Johnston's knotweed (Polygonum douglasii ssp. johnstonii)
Platephotograph · anthonyCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
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

· 100 counties across 13 states/territories
Legend Native · 100 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 100 counties across 13 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 8 N
Colorado view state ↗ 1 N
Idaho view state ↗ 17 N
Montana view state ↗ 4 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 2 N
Nevada view state ↗ 11 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 7 N
North Dakota view state ↗ 3 N
Oregon view state ↗ 10 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 2 N
Utah view state ↗ 19 N
Washington view state ↗ 4 N
Wyoming view state ↗ 12 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/PODOJ2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/7219337 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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