{"url":"https://treescape.app/api/genera/persicaria/?format=json","slug":"persicaria","latin_name":"Persicaria","description":"Persicaria is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the knotweed family, Polygonaceae. Plants of the genus are known commonly as knotweeds: 436  or smartweeds. It has a cosmopolitan distribution, with species occurring nearly worldwide. The genus was segregated from Polygonum.","gbif_id":6390748,"image_thumbnail":"https://treescape.app/media/plant_species/images/thumbnails/persicaria_thumbnail_9hB1tr0.jpg","image_large":"https://treescape.app/media/plant_species/images/large/persicaria_thumbnail_9B9XKtD.jpg"}