Common Name: wild buckwheat, climbing buckwheatScientific Name: Polygonum convolvulus L. syn. Fallopia convolvulusFamily Name: Polygonaceae - Smartweed or Buckwheat FamilyIdentification NotesLife Cycleintroduced annual, reproducing by seed Stemstrailing or twining, multiple from base, branching, smooth, angled or ribbed, nodes swollen with ohrea present, ohrea short Leaves alternate, triangular with heart-shaped base, margins entire with hairs Flowers 5-sepaled, greenish to whitish sometimes purple tinged at base; terminal and axillary clusters or racemes, flowers scattered, single or paired to 4-whorled at raceme nodes Seed Pods3-angled, not winged with green husk