Long-bristled Smartweed

Description:

Long-bristled Smartweed. This wildflower displays narrow spikes of tiny pink flowers, leaves marked with purple-spotted "lady's thumb" prints, and leaf stalks with long bristles rising from encircling sheaths. Flowers June to October. This plant is native to Asia and was introduced to eastern United States around 1900. Also called Asian smartweed, tufted knotweed, bristled knotweed, bunchy knotweed, cespitose knotweed, bristly lady's weed, Oriental lady's thumb. Considered weedy or invasive in most areas; banned in Connecticut.

Habitat:

There were numerous long-bristled smartweed flowers blooming along the wildlife trail at Kinder Farm Park in Millersville, Maryland.