Persicaria perfoliata
Family
Polygonaceae
Flora category
Vascular – Exotic
Structural class
Lianes & Related Trailing Plants - Dicotyledons
NVS code
The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.
PERPER
Conservation status
Not applicable
Flower colours
Green
Etymology
persicaria: Medieval name referring to the likeness of the leaves to a peach tree
perfoliata: From the Latin per ‘through’ and folia ‘leaf’, referring to the way the stem appear to pass through the leaf