Chinese Knotweed

Koenigia weyrichii

Koenigia weyrichii, the Chinese knotweed or Weyrich's knotweed, is a large, perennial, rhizomatous herb native to northeastern Asia in Kamchatka, Sakhalin, and northern and central Japan. It is also locally naturalised in northern Europe.

Scientific name
Koenigia weyrichii
Family
Polygonaceae