Skye Flora

Alpine Bistort


Polygonum viviparum

 

Polygonum viviparum

Photo © Carl Farmer
29 Jun 2003 Suardal
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.

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

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

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Polygonum viviparum

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

  Polygonum viviparum

Photo © Carl Farmer
(14 Jul 2002 Geilo, Norway)

 

Polygonum viviparum

Photo © Carl Farmer
(14 Jul 2002 Geilo, Norway)

 

Polygonum viviparum

Photo © Carl Farmer
17 Jul 2003 Storr
 

  Polygonum viviparum

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

Plant with bulbils only, on high
exposed ground
 


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