Bioactivity of Indian Medicinal Plants

SCFBio, IIT Delhi

SCFBio, IIT Delhi Hauz Khas, New Delhi

BIMP

Medicinal Plant TaxID: 430754

Persicaria lapathifolia

Family: Polygonaceae • Common: Curlytop knotweed; Pale Knotweed; Pale Persicaria; Pale smartweed; Willow weed

80 Compounds North Africa to Ethiopia; Subarctic and Temperate Northern Hemisphere to West and Central Malesia

Species Persicaria lapathifolia

Habit Herb

Habitat Aquatic; Grows in ditches and near ponds from plains to 1500 m. altitude; Marshy ground; Marshy localities in Evergreen forests