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Fagopyrum esculentum Moench  

No occurrences found

Family: Polygonaceae
buckwheat
[Fagopyrum sagittatum Gilib., moreFagopyrum vulgare Hill, Polygonum fagopyrum L.]
Fagopyrum esculentum image
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Craig C. Freeman, James L. Reveal in Flora of North America (vol. 5)
Stems ascending or erect, green or striped with pink or red, branched, (7-)15-90 cm. Leaves: ocrea brownish hyaline, loose, funnelform, 2-8 mm, margins truncate, eciliate, glabrous or puberulent proximally; petiole 1.5-6(-9) cm, usually puberulent adaxially; blade palmately veined with 7-9 primary basal veins, hastate-triangular, sagittate-triangular, or cordate, 2.5-8 × 2-8 cm, base truncate or cordate to sagittate, margins ciliolate, apex acute to acuminate. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, paniclelike, 1-4 cm, usually crowded at stem apices; peduncle 0.5-4 cm, puberulent in lines. Pedicels ascending or recurved, 2.5-4 mm. Flowers chasmogamous, heterostylous [homostylous]; perianths creamy white to pale pink; tepals elliptic to obovate, (2.5-)3-5 mm, margins entire, apex obtuse to acute; stamens ca. 1/ 2 as long as or slightly longer than perianth; styles 1.5-2 mm or 0.5-1 mm; stigmas purplish. Achenes uniformly light brown or streaked with dark brown or black, sharply 3-gonous, 4-6 × 4-6 mm, faces smooth, angles prominent, unwinged or essentially so, smooth or occasionally with blunt tooth in proximal 1/ 3. 2n = 16 (China). Flowering Jun-Sep; fruiting Jun-Nov. Cultivated as crop plant, waif along railroads, roadsides, fields, waste places, occasionally weedy; 0-2200 m; introduced; Alta., Man., Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.), N.S., Ont., P.E.I., Que., Sask., Yukon; Ala., Alaska, Ariz., Calif., Colo., Conn., Del., D.C., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Kans., Ky., La., Maine, Md., Mass., Mich., Minn., Mo., Mont., Nebr., N.H., N.J., N.Mex., N.Y., N.C., N.Dak., Ohio, Okla., Oreg., Pa., R.I., S.C., S.Dak., Tenn., Tex., Vt., Va., Wash., W.Va., Wis., Wyo.; Asia (China); introduced in Central America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa. Fagopyrum esculentum is a heterostylous, obligate out-crosser. Morphological, allozyme, and molecular data suggest that the cultivated plants are most closely related to wild ones in northwestern Yunnan, China.

Common buckwheat is an important pseudocereal crop in China, the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Poland; it is grown in many other countries. It is planted frequently in wildlife food plots, as a catch or cover crop, and as a honey plant in North America. Hulls from the achenes are used for pillow filling, which manufacturers claim has health benefits over traditional foam, polyester, or down fillings.

Vascular plants of NE US and adjacent Canada
Annual, 2-6 dm, the stem pubescent in lines above; lvs broadly triangular-hastate, the lower long-petioled; fl-clusters usually crowded and compact to form a terminal, corymbiform infl; tep elliptic, obtuse, 2-3 mm, achene smooth and shining, 5-7 mm, with smooth, entire angles, much exceeding the tep. 2n=16. Commonly escaped from cult., but not long persistent. June-Sept. (F. sagittatum)

Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

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