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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Persicaria robustior
|accepted_authority=(Small) E. P. Bicknell
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|place=36: 455. 1909
|year=1909
}}
|common_names=Stout smartweed;r enouée robuste
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Polygonum punctatum var. robustius
|authority=Small
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication_place=21: 477. 1894
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Persicaria punctata var. robustior
|authority=(Small) Small
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Polygonum punctatum var. majus
|authority=(Meisner) Fassett
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Polygonum robustius
|authority=
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Polygonaceae;Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae;Persicaria;Persicaria sect. Persicaria;Persicaria robustior
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polygonaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Persicaria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Persicaria sect. Persicaria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Persicaria robustior]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 582, 585, 586, 587
|treatment_page=page 584
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, 3–20 dm; roots also sometimes arising from proximal nodes; rhizomes present, stolons sometimes present. <b>Stems</b> ascending, usually branched proximally, scarcely ribbed, glabrous, glandular-punctate; branches sometimes creeping and rooting at nodes. <b>Leaves</b>: ocrea light brown, cylindric, 10–15 mm, chartaceous, base inflated, margins truncate, ciliate with bristles 3–12 mm, surface strigose, glandular-punctate; petiole 0.2–2 cm, glandular-punctate; blade without dark triangular or lunate blotch adaxially, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, 4–20 × 2–4.5 cm, base tapered, margins antrorsely strigose, apex acute to acuminate, faces glabrous or main veins scabrous, glandular-punctate. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal and axillary, erect, uninterrupted, 20–80 × 5–10 mm; peduncle 5–40 mm, glandular-punctate; ocreolae usually overlapping, margins eciliate or proximal ones sometimes ciliate with bristles to 1 mm. <b>Pedicels</b> ascending to spreading, 2–5 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 2–4 per ocreate fascicle, homostylous; perianth greenish proximally, white distally, glandular-punctate with punctae ± uniformly distributed, slightly accrescent; tepals 5, connate ca.1/3 their length, obovate, 3.2–4.2 mm, veins prominent or not, not anchor-shaped, margins entire, apex obtuse to rounded; stamens 6–8, included; anthers pink or red, elliptic; styles 3, connate proximally. <b>Achenes</b> included or apex exserted, dark brown to brownish black, 3-gonous, 2.7–3.6 × 2–2.5 mm, shiny, smooth.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jul–Oct.
|habitat=Peaty shores, often in water on coastal plain or near coast
|elevation=0-1500 m
|distribution=N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ind.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;Tex.;Va.;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p><i>Persicaria robustior</i> often is synonymized with <i>P. punctata</i>.</p>
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name=Persicaria robustior
|authority=(Small) E. P. Bicknell
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Persicaria punctata var. robustior;Polygonum punctatum var. majus;Polygonum robustius
|basionyms=Polygonum punctatum var. robustius
|family=Polygonaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jul–Oct.
|habitat=Peaty shores, often in water on coastal plain or near coast
|elevation=0-1500 m
|distribution=N.S.;Ont.;Que.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ind.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;Tex.;Va.;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bull. Torrey Bot. Club
|publication year=1909
|special status=Weedy
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_1194.xml
|subfamily=Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae
|genus=Persicaria
|section=Persicaria sect. Persicaria
|species=Persicaria robustior
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