Michaux, A. (1803), Flora Boreali-Americana Edn. 1, 1: 239 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Hab. in Pennsylvania, Virginia, Carolina."

Meisner, C.D.F. in Candolle, A.L.P.P. de (ed.) (1856), Polygonaceae. Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis 14(1): 103 [secondary reference]

Small, J.K. (22 July 1903), Flora of the Southeastern United States: 378 [basionym]

basionym of: Persicaria hydropiperoides (Michx.) Small legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Persicaria hydropiperoides (Michx.) Small legitimate

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