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Polygonum viviparum

  • Perennial
Home Perennial Polygonum viviparum

Mountain grassland and wet rocks.

Family: Polygonaceae
Height: 0.3 m / 1 ft
Sun, Semi-shade
Light, Medium and Heavy Soil
Moist

Plant Rating

Edible Uses: 3 of 5
Medicinal Uses: 1 of 5
Other Uses: of 5

Native Habitat

Alpine Bistort Polygonum viviparum native habitat is Mountain grassland and wet rocks.

Edible Uses

Leaves - raw or cooked. They have a pleasant tart taste when cooked. Seed - raw or cooked. The seed is not often produced and even when it is, it is rather small and fiddly to utilize. It is rich in starch. It is pickled in Nepal. Root - raw or cooked. Starchy and pleasant but rather small. Sweet, nutty and wholesome. They taste best when roasted. Bulbils from lower part of flowering stem - raw.

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