Taxon: Rumex acetosa L.

• conserved (nom. cons.) with a conserved type (Melbourne ICN Art. 14.9 & App. IV)
• review history of nomenclature proposal concerning this name from the Smithsonian Institution's database

Common names:

• garden sorrel   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  
• sorrel   (Source: Pl Book ) – English
  
• sorrel dock   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• sour dock   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• suan mo   (Source: Herbs Commerce ed2 ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• grande oseille   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• oseille de prés   (Source: L Noms French ed7 ) – French
  
• Wiesensauerampfer   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• acetosa   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• erba brusca   (Source: Galasso, pers. comm.) – Italian
  
• romice acetosa   (Source: Galasso, pers. comm.) – Italian
  
• suyeong   (Source: F Korea ) – Transcribed Korean
  
• azeda-brava   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• acedera común   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• ängssyra   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: vegetable   (fide Pl Book; Dict Gard)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Kellerman et al.; Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Rumex acetosa from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Morocco
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Amur, Primorye, Sakhalin
  China: China - Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Monggol, Qinghai, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Xizang, Yunnan [possibly other provinces as well]
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku; Korea; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India [n.]; Nepal; Pakistan
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Western Australia
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Svalbard and Jan Mayen; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  United States
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. Flora of the West Indies (on-line resource).
• Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Brummitt, R. K. 1998. Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta: 47. Taxon 47:867–868. [conservation proposal recommended].
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. [poisonous].
• Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Galasso, G. 2011. Review of Polygonaceae data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2. pers. comm.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares. [as an adventive].
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Jonsell, B. & O. Nilsson. 1996. (1211) Proposal to conserve the name Rumex acetosa L. (Polygonaceae) with a conserved type. Taxon 45:131–132.
• Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa. [poisonous].
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Kitagawa, M. 1979. Neo-lineamenta florae Manshuricae.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Rønning, O. I. 1996. The flora of Svalbard.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition.
• Ugarte, E. et al. 2011. Vascular alien flora, Chile. Check List 7:365–382.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Rumex acetosa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Rumex acetosa.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Rumex acetosa.

Check other web resources for Rumex acetosa L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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