| Dicotyledon | Literature for Rumex acetosella
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Polygonaceae -- The Buckwheat Family | Bibliography |
| Rumex acetosella | |
Common name(s): dock, sorrel, sheep sorrel |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Native to Eurasia, now widely naturalized in temperate and subtropical regions primarily of the Northern Hemisphere.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Kaua`i, Maui, Hawai`i. |
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| Habit |
Slender perennial herbs from a short, somewhat woody rhizome, foliage with a strong sour taste; stems erect, 2-5 dm long. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves primarily basal, lanceolate to oblong, 3-6(-10) cm long, 1-2 cm wide, glabrous or nearly so, apex acute to obtuse, base narrowly hastate, sometimes some leaves without lobes and base cuneate, petioles 2-5 cm long. |
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| Flowers |
Flowers unisexual (and the plants dioecious), in reddish, branched, racemose inflorescences; tepals ca. 1-1.2 mm long, the valves not enlarging in fruit. |
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| Fruit |
Nuts purplish brown, ca. 1.2-1.5 mm long, the surface glossy, the valves readily separating from the nut. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 14-16, 21-23, 28, 30, 32, 35, 38-43 |
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