Question: I live in Prince Edward Island, Canada (zone 5B) My vegetable garden got flooded just after planting seed and now …
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Question
I live in Prince Edward Island, Canada (zone 5B) My vegetable garden got flooded just after planting seed and now I have no idea what this plant is.
Answer
Dear kjoneil, good morning. You have photographed a species of Persicaria (smartweed). It looks like P. coccinea (scarlet smartweed), a native wetland and amphibious plant that can grow in terrestrial habitats. This species is often included in a broadly defined P. amphibia (water smartweed), and referred to as the terrestrial variant--but these are two different species. Be well.
