Index / Search / Polygonum orientale
§1 Plant
Polygonum orientale L.
vernacular kiss me over the garden gate — species · Polygonaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Polygonaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Polygonum
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
County-level range
· 282 counties across 31 states/territories§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 282 counties across 31 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 27 I ▾
- Adams 17001
- Champaign 17019
- Christian 17021
- Cook 17031
- Cumberland 17035
- De Witt 17039
- DuPage 17043
- Hancock 17067
- Jackson 17077
- Kendall 17093
- Lake 17097
- Lawrence 17101
- Macon 17115
- Macoupin 17117
- Madison 17119
- Marion 17121
- McDonough 17109
- Moultrie 17139
- Peoria 17143
- Piatt 17147
- Randolph 17157
- Sangamon 17167
- St. Clair 17163
- Vermilion 17183
- Wayne 17191
- Will 17197
- Winnebago 17201
Indiana view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 2 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 14 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 29 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Chautauqua 36013
- Chemung 36015
- Erie 36029
- Kings 36047
- Madison 36053
- Montgomery 36057
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Niagara 36063
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Orange 36071
- Putnam 36079
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- Schenectady 36093
- Suffolk 36103
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
North Carolina view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 28 I ▾
- Ashland 39005
- Ashtabula 39007
- Athens 39009
- Belmont 39013
- Butler 39017
- Champaign 39021
- Columbiana 39029
- Cuyahoga 39035
- Franklin 39049
- Highland 39071
- Hocking 39073
- Holmes 39075
- Knox 39083
- Licking 39089
- Lucas 39095
- Mahoning 39099
- Medina 39103
- Meigs 39105
- Montgomery 39113
- Muskingum 39119
- Pickaway 39129
- Preble 39135
- Richland 39139
- Ross 39141
- Scioto 39145
- Stark 39151
- Summit 39153
- Wayne 39169
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 31 I ▾
- Adams 42001
- Allegheny 42003
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Cambria 42021
- Carbon 42025
- Chester 42029
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Erie 42049
- Fayette 42051
- Franklin 42055
- Huntingdon 42061
- Lancaster 42071
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- McKean 42083
- Mercer 42085
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Potter 42105
- Schuylkill 42107
- Somerset 42111
- Susquehanna 42115
- Tioga 42117
- Warren 42123
- Westmoreland 42129
- York 42133
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 15 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 12 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/POOR2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/11042282 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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