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Reynoutria × bohemica; photograph E. A., CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF CC BYE. A., CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF

Reynoutria × bohemica Chrtek & Chrtková

Bohemian knotweed

Polygonaceae · Japan

A hybrid: R. japonica × R. sachalinensis, the parents Kew's World Checklist states for it (WCVP, RBG Kew).

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Summary

Bohemian knotweed is a nothospecies that is a cross between Japanese knotweed and giant knotweed. It has been documented as occurring in the wild in Japan. The scientific name is accepted to be Reynoutria × bohemica, but it may also be referred to as Fallopia × bohemica and Polygonum × bohemicum.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Bohemian knotweed", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 4 of the 5 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeJapan · introduced: Denmark, Finland, Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, France, Bulgaria, Italy, Romania, Baltic States, Central European Russia, Ukraine, British Columbia, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Québec, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker40.796, 140.764 · in the densest population, 3 records (60% of those in range)
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 5 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 4 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 33 km away. 1586 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 4 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 5 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: E. A., CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (2); Patrick Hacker, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (3); Maria Galkina, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF.

Other Reynoutria 4 in the reference

Reynoutria compacta Reynoutria compacta Dwarf Japanese knotweed Photo: CC BY, BobReynoutria forbesii Reynoutria forbesii Forbes’ knotweed Photo: CC BY, 鄭雪雲Reynoutria japonica Reynoutria japonica Japanese knotweed Photo: CC BY, arthur_haendlerReynoutria sachalinensis Reynoutria sachalinensis Giant knotweed Photo: CC BY, Marcin Dyderski

Names & registers

Also known as Fallopia japonica; Fallopia sachalinensis var. intermedia; Fallopia xbohemica; Polygonum sachalinense var. intermedium; Reynoutria sachalinensis var. intermedia and 1 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Polygonaceae
Described by
Chrtek & Chrtková
Native to
Japan
Wild records
5 in range · 4 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 44 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (32 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 12 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22Wikipedia's article Bohemian knotweed, the English article of this species' Wikidata item (Q12032320)
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 148 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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