PENNSYLVANIA SMARTWEED
Summary
Pennsylvania Smartweed is recognized by its reddish-brown stem with glandular hairs and dense pinkish flowers with shiny flat round black seeds. Smartweed can be found across the United States in a variety of clay, loam and sandy soils with associates with wet sights like wetlands. This species is known as waterfowl’s favorite food source. Songbirds, mourning dove, bobwhite quail, and wild turkeys enjoy utilizing the seed. It’s a low performance browser for white tail deer. If used as floral in flower beds this flower requires abundant water. Numerous species of insects, flies and bees pollinate this plant. The seeds are foraged by small mammals and birds including some waterfowl.
Plant Characteristics
Taxonomy
Zone
- Regional Growing Zone
- 1 - Northwest Coastal, 5 - Midwest, 6 - Northeast Lakes, 9 - Southeast, 10 - South Florida, 11 - South Texas, 12 - Southwest
- USDA Plant Hardiness Zones
- 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
- Temperature Zone
- Warm, Cool, Transitional
Plant Characteristics
- Height
- 24" - 48"
- Bloom Period
- Late-Spring - Fall
- Bloom Color
- Pink
- Leaf Color
- Brown
- Growing Cycle
- Annual
- Sun Requirement
- Full Sun, Partial Sun
Plant Information
- Planting Season
- Fall - Winter
- Plant Depth
- .25"
- Establishment
- Easy
Seed Information
- Seeds Per Pound
- 62,000
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Subkingdom
- Tracheobionta
- Super Division
- Spermatophyta
- Division
- Magnoliophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Subclass
- Caryophyllidae
- Order
- Polygonales
- Family
- Polydonaceae
- Genus
- Polygonum
- Species
- Polygonum pensylvanicum
Coverage Area & Available Sizes
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