Docks and Knotgrasses

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Dock Family - Polygonaceae

Pink-headed Persicaria      Persicaria capitata

Introduced as a garden ornamental and may rarely be found as a short-lived garden escape or where seeding into pavement cracks in urban areas. Flowers July to November or until the first frosts. A distinctive, small species with strongly blotched leaves and rounded flower spikes.

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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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Spiny Emex      Rumex spinosus

Native in the Canary Islands and eastwards through the Mediterranean Region, northern Africa and Middle East. Common in a wide range of stony places, coastal areas and disturbed ground.

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