dotted smartweed

Strong burning taste, use leaves and stems as pepper-like spice. Constricts blood vessels, so don’t use if you have blood pressure issues. Diuretic, astringent, used to stop bleeding, like hemorrhoids, intestinal and uterine bleeding. Thin, smooth, lance-shaped leaves. Clusters of small green-white-pink flowers with dots.

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Seasonal creek.--Herbaceous species growing on the creek bank or creek bed included Ageratina altissima, Ambrosia trifida, Campanulastrum americanum, Glyceria striata, Hackelia virginiana, Laportea canadensis, Leersia virginica, Lobelia siphilitica, Lysimachia nummularia, Mentha spicata, Persicaria longiseta, Persicaria maculosa, Persicaria punctata var.

Persicaria punctata (Ell.) Sm.--RC, SC; Common; C = 3; BSUH 19560, 19621.

The vascular flora and plant communities of Holthouse Woods Nature Preserve in Wayne County, Indiana

Gray: P42122 Persicaria coccinea (Muhl.) Greene: P42141 Persicaria hydropiperoides (Michx.) Small: P41202 Persicaria opelousana (Riddell) Small: P42125 Persicaria pensylvanica (L.) Small: P40141 Persicaria punctata (Ell.) Small: P40058 * Rumex acetosella L.: P39823

Vegetation of Wilmington Shrub Prairie Nature Preserve, Will County, Illinois

confertiflorum (Meisn.) Fassett; SYN: Persicaria punctata (Elliott) Small var.

The vascular flora and vegetational communities of Mississinewa Woods in Randolph County, Indiana

(late boneset), Persicaria punctata (Ell.) Small (smartweed), Salix nigra Marsh.

Persicaria punctata (Ell.) Small: 2A, 2B, 4, 5; M561

Vascular flora of Bonnie's Prairie Nature Preserve, Iroquois County, Illinois

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persicaria punctata

dotted smartweed