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[SHADEGARDENS] Polygonum: A weed is a weed.

Alex Waterhouse-Hayward wrote:
>
> January 19, l998
>
> Dear Sombreros,
>
> The genus Polygonaceae is full of so many weeds that in the last few years
> many of them have been given different names. (Some say Oliver Stone is
> working on a docudrama proving this is a conspiracy to sell more weeds to an
> unwary public.).
I disagree here.
 I have seen Tovara virginiana 'Painter's Pallete'
Painter's Palette is distinctive due to a light brown chevron on every
leaf.
 sold as
> Fallopia 'Aureovariegata',
This is the Persicaria virginiana that we are discussing.  It's also
called Tovara.  Also known as a Polygonum, but I can't recall which
genus.
 Fallopia aubertii and as Polygonum aubertii. It
> is this latter one that is called commonly the Mile-a-minute-plant.
This one is the Silver Lace Vine.  We have this planted next to our barn
and outhouse.  We've put an arbor over the outhouse and in one season
this plant has covered the end of the barn and the arbor in such a
manner that people aren't even aware of the outhouse being there.  When
blooming, it is loaded with fleece flowers that dangle and sway in the
breeze and is very attractive.  It has not run off of it's main stalk.
It's a great plant for a cover up, and has it's place.  We sell alot of
it.

 Are they
> all the same plant?
Nope.

> Alex, Vancouver BC Zone 7/8 but sometimes 6.

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