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Species Information
General: Annual herb from a taproot; stems prostrate to erect, solitary, simple or branched, 30-100 cm tall.
Leaves: Basal leaves lacking; stem leaves alternate, lanceolate, the blades 3-10 cm long, smooth to appressed hairy, usually with a purplish spot near midlength, the stalks short, thick; stipules cylindric-conic, 5-15 mm long, entire, appressed hairy, fringed with bristly hairs at the tips.
Flowers: Inflorescence of many flowers in crowded, cylindric, compound racemes; perianths pink or purplish, rarely white, 1.5-3.5 mm long, 5-lobed nearly to the base.
Fruits: Achenes, 3-angled or lens-shaped, 2-3 mm long, egg-shaped to roundish, nearly black, smooth, shiny.
Notes: Sometimes difficult to separate from P. hydropiperoides.
Mesic to dry roadsides, ditches, fields and waste places in the lowland, steppe and montane zones; common in SW BC, infrequent in SC and SE BC, rare northward along the coast; introduced from Eurasia.
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range. (Updated August, 2013)
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