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This is a species which is uncommon (but not counted as rare) and scattered over the British Isles. Being a late flowering annual, it will only be discovered in a late season hunt. It tends to grow with Persicaria hydropiper (Water Pepper) so you can immediately see differences such as colour and leaf shape. It isn't as peppery to taste as P hydropiper either but the best diagnostic, apart from the fact it just looks different, is the fringed ochrea in P minor. The ochrea, are stipules or leaf like structures at the junction of a leaf and stem and have fused into a little pouch in the Persicaria genus.
RHS Stocks reservoir 22nd Sept 2005, LHS Porthmadog estuary 25th Sept 2005
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Added on September 25th 2005