Native & growing wild in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, UK, Ireland, mountains of Europe, the Caucasus, Arctic northern Russia, much of Asia eastward to the Himalayas, Tibet, China, Japan, Alaska, Canada, Greenland, & western US.
Distribution / Verbreitung: in the
Northern Hemispherein
Deutschlandin
North AmericaPictures / BilderOther English names (not proposed):
alpine knotweed
alpine smartweed
serpent grass
viviparous bistort
viviparous knotweedAndere deutsche Namen (nicht vorgeschlagen):
Lebendgebärender Knöterichdie
OtterwurzTaxonomic citations:
Bistorta vivipara (Linnaeus) Delarbre, Flore d’Auvergne (ed. 2) 2: 516. 1800.
Persicaria vivipara (Linnaeus) Ronse Decraene, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 98(4): 368. 1988.
Basionym:
Polygonum viviparum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 360. 1753.
1853