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§1 Plant

Polygonum scandens L.

vernacular climbing false buckwheat — species · Polygonaceae


USDA
POSC3
GBIF
5652201 syn.
Rank
species
climbing false buckwheat (Polygonum scandens)
Platephotograph · Sadie HickeyCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

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

Native status, by region

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

County-level range

· 428 counties across 18 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 0 Both · 428 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 428 counties across 18 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 6 B
Arkansas view state ↗ 39 B
Delaware view state ↗ 2 B
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 B
Florida view state ↗ 10 B
Georgia view state ↗ 16 B
Kentucky view state ↗ 63 B
Maine view state ↗ 8 B
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 B
Montana view state ↗ 1 B
New Hampshire view state ↗ 7 B
New Jersey view state ↗ 19 B
New York view state ↗ 44 B
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 63 B
Rhode Island view state ↗ 5 B
Vermont view state ↗ 9 B
Virginia view state ↗ 80 B
West Virginia view state ↗ 41 B

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/POSC3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/5652201 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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