There are ochrea up to 12 centimeters in length.

Each leaf has a large stipule which forms a wide, membranous ochrea.

The leaves have large stipules which form reddish ochrea up to 3 centimeters long.

The leaves have sheathing stipules known as ochrea.

They have bristly ochrea.

Mylothris ochrea is a butterfly in the Pieridae family.

Coleophora ochrea is a moth of the Coleophoridae family.

Each leaf has a peculiar pair of fused, sheathing stipules known as an ochrea.

Leaves have stipules which are widened into membranous ochrea wrapped around the leaf bases.

It is lined with linear leaves especially near the tips of the branches, and has a cylindrical, shreddy ochrea.

The leaves have relatively large stipules which form ochrea that sheath the stem, sometimes hiding the leaf bases.

The leaves have membranous stipules which fuse to form silvery ochrea at the leaf bases.

At the base of each leaf is a thin reddish sheath formed from the leaf's stipules which is known as the ochrea.

The lance-shaped leaves are up to 15 centimeters long and have stipules widened into bristly brown ochrea that wrap around their bases.

Each reddish leaf has a funnel-shaped stipule that wraps around the leaf base to form an ochrea.

The ochrea is up to 2 centimeters long and is persistent, fraying into fibrous, silvery shreds that remain on the plant through the seasons.

Ochrea, (Latin ochrea, greave or protective legging), also spelled ocrea, is a plant structure formed of stipules fused into a sheath surrounding the stem, and is typically found in the Polygonaceae.

Those species that do not have the nodal ocrea can be identified by their possession of involucrate flower heads.

They have persistent or deciduous ocrea.

The ocrea is not fringed.

The stems have nodes covered by an ocrea, a thin, paper-like membrane - a characteristic of the Polygonaceae family.

The leaves are lance-shaped and are connected at the node by a membranous sheath, or ocrea.

In some species the ocrea, a thin flange where the leaf meets the stem, is enlarged and harbors ants.

The specific epithet is derived from the Latin ocrěātus 'wearing greaves' from ocrea 'greave', referring to its loose, baggy volva.

In the USA, it is very similar to Pennsylvania smartweed, but Redshank has a fringe of hairs at the top of the ocrea, something which Pennsylvania smartweed lacks.

Ochrea, (Latin ochrea, greave or protective legging), also spelled ocrea, is a plant structure formed of stipules fused into a sheath surrounding the stem, and is typically found in the Polygonaceae.

On his right arm, he wore a manica (a heavy linen or metal wrapping tied with leather thongs), and on his left leg, he wore an ocrea (a greave made of boiled leather or metal).

While it superficially resemble bindweeds in the genus Convolvulus there are many notable differences; it has ocrea (stipule-sheath at nodes), which Convolvulus does not; and Convolvulus has conspicuous trumpet-shaped flowers while Black-bindweed has flowers that are unobtrusive and only about 4 mm long.

Around the stem of both these species there is a papery sheath known as a ocrea with stiff spine-like hairs at the top, but in P. caespitosum these hairs are much longer, as long as the visible portion of the ocrea, whereas in P. persicaria they are much shorter.