General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Partial or Dappled Shade
Partial Shade to Full Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 8b
Plant Height: 18-24 inches
Plant Spread: 1.5 to 2 feet
Leaves: Good fall color
Unusual foliage color
Evergreen
Other: Broad, oval, medium green leaves (to 10” long) are marbled and splashed with creamy white, yellow and a touch of pink, with each leaf having a large central chocolate-red chevron.
Flowers: Showy
Inconspicuous
Flower Color: Other: Dark red, beady, jumpseed-like flowers on long, slender, wand-like stems.
Flower Time: Summer
Late summer or early fall
Underground structures: Rhizome
Uses: Groundcover
Cut Flower
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Propagation: Seeds: Sow in situ
Other info: Self seeds
Propagation: Other methods: Other: Rhizomes
Pollinators: Various insects

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Common names
  • Variegated Knotweed
  • Knotweed
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Persicaria virginiana
  • Synonym: Polygonum virginianum
  • Synonym: Tovara virginiana

Photo Gallery
Location: In my garden, Cottage-in-the-Meadow Gardens, South Amana, IA
Date: 2008-07-25
Location: All pictures taken in/on my gardens/greenhouse/property
Date: 2018-09-19
very difficult to get a decent picture!
Location: In my garden, Cottage-in-the-Meadow Gardens, South Amana, IA
Date: 2008-07-25
Photo by Stush2019
Location: St Louis
Date: 2011-09-24
Has red seeds instead of white
Location: Halls of Heddon, Newcastle UK
Date: 2019-09-26
Location: Meadowlark Botanical Garden, Fairfax, Virginia (May 2022)
Date: 2022-05-01
Photo by treehugger
Photo by pinkiris
Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
Date: Mid Summer
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Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Date: 2015 06-23
Location: Hamilton Square Garden, Historic City Cemetery, Sacramento CA.
Date: 2018-04-10
Location: Harvard, MA
Date: 2015-08-22

Date: 2014-11-25
Location: Western Washington
Date: 2019-07-31
Photo by pinkiris

Date: 2012-06-27

Date: 2012-06-27

Courtesy Crownsville Nursery
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Courtesy Crownsville Nursery
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Courtesy Crownsville Nursery
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Photo Courtesy of Lazy S'S Farm Nursery.
  • Uploaded by Joy

Photo Courtesy of Lazy S'S Farm Nursery.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Kalama, Wa.
Date: 2009-07-26
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Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2008-09-14
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Comments:
  • Posted by Pattyw5 (La Salle Illinois - Zone 5a) on Dec 8, 2014 4:22 PM concerning plant:
    Mine is not variegated, though it will throw seedlings that are. Sorry to have to show photo with dead tree, but wanted you to see the beautiful red stem and bead-like pods that become the flower and seed. Forgot to cut these off one year before seed set. In this spot the following spring I got to pull up hundreds of seedlings. I grow this mainly for the spectacular fall show.
Plant Events from our members
lovesblooms On February 24, 2018 Seeds sown
winter sown
MrsBinWY On July 16, 2019 Potted up
On 7-16-2019, potted up 12 seedlings. Gave some to Jack Palma. Didn't get the rest planted out, and they didn't survive the winter in pots :(
MrsBinWY On April 28, 2019 Seeds germinated
3
MrsBinWY On March 9, 2019 Seeds sown
WS 16 seeds, desc. of 'Painter's Palette,' from ishareflowers' 2017G in milk jug
antsinmypants On October 1, 2021 Plant emerged
I had about given up on this but one plant finally emerged.
antsinmypants On April 16, 2021 Seeds sown
In unheated greenhouse.
Plug flat one row 11.
antsinmypants On March 10, 2021 Seeds sown
Indoors under lights
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Discussion Threads about this plant
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Possibly Persicaria 'Lance Corporal' by jvdubb Jun 19, 2014 4:22 AM 3
Wrong painter's palette by purpleinopp Dec 19, 2022 8:17 AM 2

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