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Electronic Flora of South Australia species Fact Sheet

Family: Polygonaceae
Rumex crispus

Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 335 (1753).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Curled dock.

Description:
Stem erect, 30-150 cm high, with short erect branches; lower leaves 3-30 x 1-8 cm, oblong-lanceolate, crisped on the edges.

Clusters many-flowered, approximate, leafy only near the base of the raceme, forming a long dense panicle; valves 3-6 mm long, broad-ovate, entire, cordate at the base, reticulate, often only 1 of the 3 bearing a well-developed ovoid tubercle.

Seeds c. 1.5 mm long, c. 1 mm wide, dull-red.

image of FSA1_Rumex_cri.jpg
Image source: fig. 99g in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 235.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: GT, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   naturalised widely in all States.   New Zealand. Native to Europe and North Africa.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: Nov. — Jan.


SA Distribution Map based
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State Herbarium of South Australia

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