Bistorta vacciniifolia

Bistorta vacciniifolia
	In bloom
	Mass effect
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Embryophytes
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Polygonaceae
Genus:	Bistorta
Species:	B. vacciniifolia
Binomial name
	Bistorta vacciniifolia; (Wall. ex Meisn.) Greene
Synonyms
	List Persicaria vacciniifolia (Wall. ex Meisn.) Ronse Decr.; Polygonum vacciniifolium Wall. ex Meisn.; Polygonum vacciniifolium var. flagelliforme Meisn.; Polygonum vacciniifolium var. medium Meisn.; Polygonum vacciniifolium var. obtusifolium Meisn.; ;

Bistorta vacciniifolia, the whortleberry-leaved knotweed, is a species of flowering plant in the family Polygonaceae, native to Tibet and the Himalaya.^[1] Well-suited for clay soils, as its synonym Persicaria vacciniifolia it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.^[2]^[3]