Snowball Flower
Persicaria hastatoauriculata
- Habit
- Herb
- Native to
- Indo-Malayan
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
How to identify Snowball Flower
Identify Snowball Flower by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a herb habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Ball-shaped white flower clusters, arrowhead-shaped leaves.
- Confirm leaf shape: Sagittate (arrowhead-shaped).
- In season, compare flowering and fruiting time: Throughout the year.
- Confirm it sits within the Polygonaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Snowball Flower.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Persicaria hastatoauriculata
- Genus
- Persicaria
- Family
- Polygonaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Native to
- Indo-Malayan
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- Sagittate (arrowhead-shaped)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Snowball Flower itself; the rest are typical of the Polygonaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Spike
- Fruit
- Achene
Typical of the Polygonaceae family — flowering plants only; individual species can differ.
About Snowball Flower
A member of the Polygonaceae family, Snowball Flower (Persicaria hastatoauriculata) is a herb. It is native to Indo-Malayan. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Polygonaceae
Buckwheat/Knotweed family
Snowball Flower belongs to the Polygonaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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