• Family : Polygonaceae
  (Buckwheat Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : JANGLI PALAK FAMILY (जंगली पालक फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : Polygonaceae
• Basionym : Polygonum rumicifolium Royle ex Bab.
• Synonym(s) : Aconogonon hissaricum (Popov) Soják
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Koenigia rumicifolia (Royle ex Bab.) T.M.Schust. & Reveal
• Common name : Dock-Leaf Knotweed
• Habit : Herb
• Habitat : High mountain, shrubberies, alpine slopes
• Comments / notes : The young shoots are edible
• Key identification features : Leaves succulent, flowers in terminal branched clusters, flowers greenish-yellow.
• Flower, Fruit : June-August
• Distribution :
  • Uttarakhand : Valley of Flowers
  • Himachal Pradesh : Kinnaur district, Lahaul & Spiti district, Shimla district
• Native : Asia-Temperate
• Exotic/Native : Exotic
• World Distribution : Western Himalaya, Nepal,Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Tadzhikistan, Uzbekistan
• Literature : Oleg P & Adam S (1984). Flowers of Himalaya. Oxford University Press: 343; Chowdhery, H. J. & Wadhwa, B. H (1984). Flora of Himachal Pradesh Vol. 2. Published BSI: 607; Nair, N. G (1977).Flora of Bashahr Himalayas. International Bioscience Publishers: 239
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Navendu Page, Deepak Kumar (2020). Pan India Bouquets. http://flora-peninsula-indica.ces.iisc.ac.in/pan/plants.php?name=Aconogonon rumicifolium. Downloaded on 3 December 2023.

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