Dotted Smartweed
Polygonum punctatum
Dotted smartweed is a wetland smartweed with gland-dotted leaves and greenish-white flower spikes, a wildlife food plant for the margins of ponds, ditches, and swamps.
- Family
- Polygonaceae
- Type
- wildflower
- Lifespan
- annual
- Height
- 3.2–3.2 ft
- Spacing
- 1–2 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- wet
- Soil pH
- acidic, neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- May, June, July, August, September, October
- Bloom colors
- white, green
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, songbirds
- Landscape uses
- border, rain garden, erosion control, naturalizing
- Native states
- AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY