| Description | Climbing Buckwheat (Fallopia scandens) perennial vine that will run over anything in it's way. Once established as a weed it can be very hard to control. |
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| Plant Type | Weeds, Vines |
| Sunlight | very tolerable, prefers some shade |
| Moisture | average, moist |
| Soil & Site | average, prefers moist edges of woodlands with some disturbance, tolerant |
| Flowers | greenish white flowers, borne in loose whorls along a raceme |
| Fruit | 3-angled achenes , dark brown to black |
| Leaves | simple, alternate, green, cordate or ovate, smooth along the entire margins, hairless, indented at the base. |
| Stems | a twining vine, stems can become red |
| Dimensions | up to 20 feet long under ideal conditions |
| Propagation | it is perennial, propagation by seed |
| Misc Facts | aka: Climbing Buckwheat, |
| Author's Notes | This plant is a major weed pest in an old bed of Low Gro Fragrant Sumac. The vines twine around the stems making it difficult to remove. It is a constant battle. Late in the season when I pull the plants that were missed I can hear the seeds falling through the stems of the Sumac. |
| Notes & Reference | #153-Illinois Wildflower (www.illinoiswildflowers.info), #233-Go Botany (www.gobotany.newenglandwild.org) |
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