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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Persicaria minor
|accepted_authority=(Hudson) Opiz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Seznam,
|place=72. 1852
|year=1852
}}
|common_names=Small water-pepper;petite renouée
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Polygonum minus
|authority=Hudson
|publication_title=Fl. Angl.,
|publication_place=148. 1762
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Polygonum minus var. subcontinuum
|authority=(Meisner) Fernald
}}
|hierarchy=Polygonaceae;Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae;Persicaria;Persicaria sect. Persicaria;Persicaria minor
|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 minor]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 583, 594
|treatment_page=page 593
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual, 0.5–3(–4) dm; roots also sometimes at from proximal nodes; rhizomes and stolons absent. <b>Stems</b> decumbent or ascending, branched proximally, scarcely ribbed, glabrous or scabrous distally. <b>Leaves</b>: ocrea brownish, cylindric, 3–10 mm, chartaceous, base not inflated, margins truncate, ciliate with bristles (0.3–)1–3(–5) mm, surface glabrous or strigose, not glandular-punctate; petiole 0.1–0.2 cm, glabrous or strigose, leaves sometimes sessile; blade without dark triangular or lunate blotch adaxially, linear to linear-lanceolate, (1–)2–7.5(–10) × (0.2–)0.4–1(–2.3) cm, base tapered to cuneate, margins antrorsely scabrous, apex acute to acuminate, faces glabrous or sparingly strigose, especially along midveins, not glandular-punctate. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal and axillary, ascending to erect, usually interrupted proximally, uninterrupted distally, 10–50 × 2–4 mm; peduncle (0–)2–25 mm, sometimes absent on axillary inflorescences and flowers thus enclosed in ocreae, glabrous; ocreolae not overlapping proximally, usually overlapping distally, margins ciliate with bristles (0.1–)0.6–2(–2.7) mm. <b>Pedicels</b> ascending, 0.5–1 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 1–3(–4) per ocreate fascicle, homostylous; perianth roseate to red, rarely white, glabrous, not glandular-punctate, scarcely accrescent; tepals 5, connate ca. 1/3 their length, obovate to elliptic, 2.5–3 mm, veins not prominent, not anchor-shaped, margins entire, apex obtuse to rounded; stamens 5(–6), included; anthers yellow to pink, elliptic; styles 2(–3), connate at bases. <b>Achenes</b> included, brownish black to black, biconvex or, rarely, 3-gonous, (1.5–)1.8–2.3(– 2.7) × (1.1–)1.3–1.5(–1.8) mm, shiny, smooth.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jul–Oct.
|habitat=Damp, open places
|elevation=0-100 m
|distribution=N.B.;Ont.;Que.;Conn.;Ind.;La.;Mass.;Nebr.;Pa.;Vt.;Va.;Europe.
|discussion=<p><i>Persicaria minor</i> is synonymized with <i>P. maculosa</i> in most North American floras; its distribution in the flora area is poorly known. Hybrids between <i>P. minor</i> and <i>P. maculosa</i> have been documented in Europe (R. H. Roberts 1977).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Persicaria minor
|author=
|authority=(Hudson) Opiz
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=Polygonum minus var. subcontinuum
|basionyms=Polygonum minus
|family=Polygonaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jul–Oct.
|habitat=Damp, open places
|elevation=0-100 m
|distribution=N.B.;Ont.;Que.;Conn.;Ind.;La.;Mass.;Nebr.;Pa.;Vt.;Va.;Europe.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Seznam,
|publication year=1852
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V5/V5_1207.xml
|subfamily=Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae
|genus=Persicaria
|section=Persicaria sect. Persicaria
|species=Persicaria minor
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