West Highland Flora

Alpine Bistort


Persicaria vivipara

Former name: Polygonum viviparum

Persicaria vivipara

Photo © Carl Farmer
29 Jun 2003 Suardal, Skye
Flowering part (not bulbils) 14 mm high

Occasional in hills on damp grassy or stony ground.

Flowers 3-4 mm long.  Plant typically 15 cm high, smaller on high tops.

ID: Flowers in the top half of the spike and purple bulbils in the lower half, or bulbils only in mountain-top plants.

Other features: Leaves narrow, tapering to base, their stalks not winged, arising from conspicuous joints with brown sheathing stipules. Stems unbranched.

 

Persicaria vivipara

Photo © Carl Farmer
29 Jun 2003 Suardal, Skye
Flowering part (not bulbils)
14 mm high

  Persicaria vivipara

Photo © Carl Farmer
14 Jul 2002 Geilo, Norway

 

Persicaria vivipara

Photo © Carl Farmer
14 Jul 2002 Geilo, Norway

 

Persicaria vivipara

Photo © Carl Farmer
17 Jul 2003 Storr, Skye
 

  Persicaria vivipara

Photo © Carl Farmer
17 Jul 2003 Storr, Skye
Spike of bulbils 2 cm high

Plant with bulbils only, on exposed high
ground
 


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