Taxon: Rumex obtusifolius L.

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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:

FL°, NC°.

ªAquatic.

*Terrestrial.

°In seed.

Link to noxious weed information from

See also subordinate taxa:

• Rumex obtusifolius subsp. obtusifolius (no accessions)
• Rumex obtusifolius subsp. silvestris (no accessions)
• Rumex obtusifolius subsp. subalpinus (no accessions)
• Rumex obtusifolius subsp. transiens (no accessions)

Common names:

• bitter dock   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• broadleaf dock   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• dun ye suan mo   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• patience sauvage   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Gemüse-Ampfer   (Source: Galasso, pers. comm.) – German
  
• stumpfblättriger Ampfer   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• romice a foglie lunghe   (Source: Galasso, pers. comm.) – Italian
  
• língua-de-vaca-amarga   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• labaça-de-vaca-amarga   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• romaza de hojas grandes   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• vinagrillo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• tomtskräppa   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Weed CIBA)
  

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Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Iran [n.]; Turkey [n.]
  Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Georgia
  China: China - Anhui, Gansu, Hebei, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Sichuan, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Japan; Taiwan
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Ireland; Norway; Sweden [s.]; 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]; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain

• widely naturalized elsewhere

References:

• 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).
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. Documenta CIBA-GEIGY (Grass weeds 1. 1980, 2. 1981; Monocot weeds 3. 1982; Dicot weeds 1. 1988)
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• 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.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Jalas, J. & J. Suominen. 1972–. Atlas florae europaeae.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Parsons, W. T. & E. G. Cuthbertson. 1992. Noxious weeds of Australia.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition.
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Rumex obtusifolius.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Rumex obtusifolius.

Synonyms:

• Rumex obtusifolius var. subalpinus Schur [≡ Rumex obtusifolius subsp. subalpinus]
  
• Rumex sylvestris Wallr. [= Rumex obtusifolius subsp. silvestris]
  
• Rumex sylvestris var. transiens Simonk. [≡ Rumex obtusifolius subsp. transiens]
  

Check other web resources for Rumex obtusifolius 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
• 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

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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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