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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Pinks, Cactuses, and Allies
  6. Knotweed Family
  7. Koenigiinae
  8. Knotweed

genus

Knotweed

Koenigia

Traits
Includes
2 native 1 introduced 5 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Alpine Smartweed
  • Davis' Knotweed native
  • Poke Knotweed native
  • Weyrich's Knotweed present
  • Himalayan Knotweed present
  • Lesser Knotweed
  • Koenigia divaricata present
  • Alaska Wild-rhubarb present
  • Iceland-purslane present
  • Finnish Knotweed
  • Koenigia tripterocarpa present

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Annual Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native knotweed All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Davis' Knotweed Koenigia davisiae caterpillars 1 flowers 1 shelter 1
  • Poke Knotweed Koenigia phytolaccifolia flowers 2

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