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Water-pepper Water-pepper
Polygonum hydropiper
Height up to 70cm

Upright, branched annual, characteristic of damp, bare ground such as winter-wet ruts. Widespread and common except in N. Narrow oval leaves have peppery taste when chewed. Pale pink flowers borne in long spikes which often droop at tip.