Docks
Dock Family - Polygonaceae
Sheep's Sorrel Rumex acetosellaNative throughout temperate and warm temperate Eurasia. The flowers form masses of red or orange in short turf and can barely be missed when in season. Leaves small, to 4cms in length, with two basal lobes that typically point outwards and away from each other.
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Tuberous Dock Rumex tuberosus
Native throughout most of the Mediterranean Region, eastwards to the Caucasus and Turkmenistan. A common species of stony ground.
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Horned Dock Rumex bucephalophorus
Native throughout the Mediterranean Region. A common annual of a wide range of open places.
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Curled Dock Rumex crispus
Native throughout temperate and warm temperate Eurasia. Also widely introduced around the world as a weed of anthropic habitats. Usually easily recognised by the curly or waved margins to the relatively narrow leaves. Seed capsules are smooth-edged without spike-like projections and are broadly heart-shaped; each capsule typically has only one tubercle fully developed and swollen.
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Clustered Dock Rumex conglomeratus
Native throughout Europe and the Mediterranean Region, eastwards to Central Asia. A more delicate species than Curled Dock with a much-branched flower spike that has slender arms that bear small, leaf-like bracts between the flower whorls. Seed capsules are small and narrow, each bearing three, well-developed tubercles.
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Fiddle Dock Rumex maritimus
Native to western and Central Europe, south to Macaronesia and the Mediterranean Region and east to Iran. A distinctive dock, this species gets its English name from the shape of the leaves, which have a distinct indent at the sides towards the base and thus bear a vague resemblance to the shape of a fiddle or violin. The flower spike is very distinct, being much branched, with leafy bracts among the flower whorls and often almost as broad as tall in overall shape.
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