Index / Search / Polygonum scandens var. dumetorum

§1 Plant

Polygonum scandens L. var. dumetorum (L.) Gleason

vernacular climbing false buckwheat — variety · Polygonaceae


USDA
POSCD
GBIF
6391446 syn.
Rank
variety
climbing false buckwheat (Polygonum scandens var. dumetorum)
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

· 121 counties across 10 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 121 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 121 counties across 10 states/territories.

Delaware view state ↗ 1 I
Indiana view state ↗ 10 I
Kansas view state ↗ 76 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 1 I
Nebraska view state ↗ 3 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 1 I
New York view state ↗ 22 I
Ohio view state ↗ 3 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 3 I
Vermont view state ↗ 1 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

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

plants.usda.gov/POSCD ↗

GBIF Backbone

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

gbif.org/species/6391446 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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