Botanical Name: Persicaria decipiens
Common Name: Slender Knotweed
Type: Herb Aquatic/Wetland prostrate to 60cm
Features:
- Spreading perennial herb, rooting at the leaf nodes
- Leaves often have dark blotches
- Bright pink flowers on a slender spike; December to April
- Seeds are an important food source for waterbirds
Requirements:
- Full sun to full shade
- Permanent to seasonally wet sites
Other Plant Fact Sheets
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- Coprosma quadrifida
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- Correa alba
- Crassula helmsii
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- Cynoglossum australe
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- Glycine clandestina
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