Polygonaceae
Noun
Meaning
a family of plants of order Polygonales chiefly of the north temperate zone; includes the buckwheats
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The Polygonaceae are a family of flowering plants known informally as the knotweed family or smartweed—buckwheat family in the United States.
Phylogeny The following phylogenetic tree is based on two papers on the molecular phylogenetics of Polygonaceae.
Its circumscription was typically: * order Polygonales *: family Polygonaceae In these systems the order is placed close to the order Caryophyllales (or its predecessor Centrospermae ).