{"id":1977,"date":"2010-07-12T10:33:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T14:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2010-07-12T10:33:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T14:33:45","slug":"virginia-knotweed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/12\/virginia-knotweed\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Knotweed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/fragmentsfromfloyd.com\">Fred First<\/a> identified this plant as Virginia knotweed, I feared that it was related to the invasive exotic, Japanese knotweed.  While both are in the same family (<em>polygonaceae<\/em>), Virginia knotweed is in the genus <em>persicaria<\/em> while Japanese knotweed is in the genus <em>fallopia<\/em>.  Whew!!  The plant is also known as Jumpseed, because the seeds stick on the stem into the fall and jump when you try to collect them.  The leaves have a characteristic <a href=\"http:\/\/2bnthewild.com\/plants\/H236.htm\">dark spot<\/a> near the midrib and the flower stalk is very long with tiny white flowers arranged along it:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Jumpseed.jpg\" alt=\"Jumpseed.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have a lot of this plant, also, but I don&#8217;t believe that it is anywhere near the problem as the wingstem is.  I observed a number of seedling trees growing amongst the jumpseed, probably because this plant doesn&#8217;t get very tall &#8211; I didn&#8217;t see any taller than about 12&#8243;.  Thus, it does not shade out small seedlings and prevent them from growing as the wingstem does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Fred First identified this plant as Virginia knotweed, I feared that it was related to the invasive exotic, Japanese knotweed. While both are in the same family (polygonaceae), Virginia knotweed is in the genus persicaria while Japanese knotweed is <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/12\/virginia-knotweed\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,23,80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1978,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/1978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}