Polygonaceae: "The Buckwheat Family"

Leaves alternate, simple, entire, often with stipules sheathing the stem

Flowers small, often numerous, mostly perfect

Perianth often petaloid with a single whorl, sometimes sepaloid in two whorls, persistent

Pistil 1, with 2-3 styles

Fruit an akene

provided by Jonathan Wenger. Sept. 1996