Taxon: Rumex acetosella L.

A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:

AL°, CT*, FL°, GA°, IA*°, KY°, LA°, MO°, NE°, OK*°, SC°, TN°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

See also subordinate taxa:

• Rumex acetosella subsp. acetosella (no accessions)
• Rumex acetosella subsp. acetoselloides (no accessions)
• Rumex acetosella subsp. multifidus (no accessions)
• Rumex acetosella subsp. pyrenaicus (no accessions)

Common names:

• field sorrel   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  
• sheep sorrel   (Source: F Ariz ) – English
  
• sheep sorrel   (Source: F BritStace ) – English   [Rumex acetosella subsp. acetosella]
  
• sorrel   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  
• sorrel   (Source: Noxweed Aust ) – English   [Rumex acetosella subsp. acetosella]
  
• xiao suan mo   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• oseille   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• petite oseille   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• surette   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• kleiner Wiesensauerampfer   (Source: Galasso, pers. comm.) – German
  
• acetosella   (Source: Galasso, pers. comm.) – Italian
  
• romice acetosella   (Source: Galasso, pers. comm.) – Italian
  
• azeda-de-ovelha   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• azeda-miúda   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• azedinha-aleluia   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• bergsyra   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide State Noxweed Seed; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Rumex acetosella from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

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

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Iran; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Altay, Eastern Siberia, Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Far East
  China: China - Fujian, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Nei Monggol, Shandong, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Yunnan [possibly], Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Korea; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India
• 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; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain

• AFRICA
  Africa
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Eastern Asia: Japan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Sri Lanka
  Malesia: Indonesia - Java; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  Mexico
  United States
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: West Indies
  Mesoamerica: Central America
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Uruguay

References:

• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & M. T. Strong. 2012. Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 98.
• 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).
• Backer, C. A. & R. C. Bakhuizen van den Brink, Jr. 1963–1968. Flora of Java.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• 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].
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (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.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Hokche, O. et al. 2008. Nuevo catálogo de la flora vascular de Venezola.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• Kearney, T. H. & R. H. Peebles. 1969. Arizona flora, ed. 2. [natzd.].
• 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.
• Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. 1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Merrill, E. D. 1922–1926. An enumeration of Philippine flowering plants.
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rønning, O. I. 1996. The flora of Svalbard.
• Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A. 1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act.
• Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta).
• Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505.
• 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.
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• Villaseñor, J. L. & F. J. Espinoza-Garcia. 2004. The alien flowering plants of Mexico. Diversity & Distrib. 10:113–123.
• Wagner, W. L. et al. Flora of the Hawaiian Islands (on-line resource).
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Rumex acetosella.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Rumex acetosella.

Synonyms:

• Acetosella vulgaris Fourr. [= Rumex acetosella subsp. acetosella]
  
• Rumex acetosella subsp. angiocarpus auct. [= Rumex acetosella subsp. pyrenaicus]
  
• (=) Rumex acetosella var. tenuifolius Wallr.
  
• Rumex acetoselloides Balansa [≡ Rumex acetosella subsp. acetoselloides]
  
• Rumex angiocarpus auct. [= Rumex acetosella subsp. pyrenaicus]
  
• Rumex multifidus L. [≡ Rumex acetosella subsp. multifidus]
  
• Rumex pyrenaicus Pourr. ex Lapeyr. [≡ Rumex acetosella subsp. pyrenaicus]
  
• (=) Rumex tenuifolius (Wallr.) Á. Löve
  

Check other web resources for Rumex acetosella 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:

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

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• 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.

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