Pale Persicaria - Persicaria lapathifolia
Medium tall, slightly hairy plant. Leaves oval to linear-lanceolate, occasionally with pale blackish blotch, with yellowish dots (glands) beneath. Flowers in dense spikes, dull greenish white, sometimes pinkish, stalks with yellowish glands.
Persicaria maculosa
Very variable in flower colour, from greenish-white to deep pink, and in hairiness. Glands frequent on perianth and peduncle; veins of outer tepals divided, with turned back branches. Leaves lanceolate
Photo showing flower and flower stalk with glands
Cultivated land, waste places and water margins.
June to October.
Annual.
Fairly common and widespread in Britain.
Fairly common in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 354 of the 617 tetrads.
In the current Checklist (Jeeves, 2011) it is listed as Native, Locally Frequent
Graham Calow
Near Higham on the Hill
18 August 2015
Graham Calow
A5 Witherley
06 August 2015
Graham Calow
Thurlaston, Near Croft Lane
15 August 2019
Graham Calow
Burbage, behind Jurys Inn Hotel
28 July 2023
yellow glands on stem
David Nicholls
Leicester, Sunningdale Rd
29 September 2024
yellow glandular hairs on stalk
Craig Mabbett
Stockhill Farm Near Broughton Astley
21 June 2017
martindgrimes
Tinwell
19/07/2017
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Species profile
- Common names
- Pale Persicaria
- Species group:
- Wildflowers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Caryophyllales
- Family:
- Polygonaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 31
- First record:
- 07/08/2006 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 29/09/2024 (Nicholls, David)
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David Nicholls
Leicester, Sunningdale Rd
29 September 2024
Craig Mabbett
Stockhill Farm Near Broughton Astley
21 June 2017
Peter Smith
Cropston garden
12 August 2013
Black blotches on leaves
Graham Calow
Near Higham on the Hill
18 August 2015
flower stalks with yellowish glands.
Graham Calow
Thurlaston, Near Croft Lane
15 August 2019
glandular stem
