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Taxon: Rumex acetosella L.

Genus: Rumex
Family: Polygonaceae subfamily: Polygonoideae.
Nomen number: 32519
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:338. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 10-Mar-2004 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 29-Oct-2007
Species priority site is: North Central Regional PI Station (NC7).
Accessions: 1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
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 Invaders Database System

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Common names:

  • field sorrel   (Source: F NAmer ) – English
  • sheep sorrel   (Source: F Ariz ) – English
  • sheep sorrel   (Source: F BritStace ) – English   [Rumex acetosella subsp. acetosella]
  • sheep's sorrel   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  • 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
  • sûrette   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  • 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)
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Economic importance:

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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • 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

      Naturalized: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)
  • naturalized in tropical & s. Africa, tropical Asia, Australia, New Zealand, United States (including Hawaii), Canada, Mexico, Central America, South America, Mascarenes, Melanesia, & Polynesia

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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Rumex acetosella L.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
  • Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • 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.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

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
  • Google 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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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?32519 (09 February 2010)

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