Taxon: Rumex crispus 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:

AZ°, CO°, FL°, IA*°, IL°, IN°, MI*°, MT°, NC°, NE°, NV°, OH°, WY°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

Common names:

• curled dock   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• curly dock   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• sour dock   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• yellow dock   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• krultongblaar   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• weeblaar   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• zhou ye suan mo   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• patience crépu   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• reguette   (Source: F NAmer ) – French
  
• rumex crêpu   (Source: L Noms French ed7 ) – French
  
• krauser Ampfer   (Source: Galasso, pers. comm.) – German
  
• romice conglomerato   (Source: Galasso, pers. comm.) – Italian
  
• língua-de-vaca   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• labaça-crespa   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• labaça-selvagem   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• paciência   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• krusskräppa   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Harmful organism host: crop diseases   (fide Diseas Comp)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

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View toxicology references for Rumex crispus from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

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

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Uzbekistan
  Mongolia: Mongolia
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Kamchatka, Primorye
  China: China - Gansu, Guizhou, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Monggol, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Yunnan, Zhejiang [possibly]
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Korea; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan
  Indo-China: Myanmar; Thailand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; 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; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Lesotho; Namibia; South Africa
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar; Mauritius; Reunion
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Malesia: Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  Mexico
  United States
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
  South-Central Pacific: French Polynesia
  Southwestern Pacific: Fiji; New Caledonia
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: West Indies
  Mesoamerica: Central America
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Uruguay

References:

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• 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).
• American Phytopathological Society. 1988. Compendium of grape diseases. In: American Phytopathological Society, The disease compendium series. 51.
• Bosser, J. M. et al., eds. 1976–. Flores des Mascareignes.
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• 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)
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• 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.
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
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• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hansen, A. & P. Sunding. 1993. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 4. Sommerfeltia vol. 17.
• Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. 1973–. Flora of Ecuador.
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More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Rumex crispus.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Rumex crispus.

Check other web resources for Rumex crispus 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
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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