Family | Scientific Name | Common Name | Habitat | Distribution | Image |
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Polygonaceae | Rumex altissimus | Pale Dock, Tall Dock, Peachleaf Dock | Bottomlands, swamps, marshes, roadsides, disturbed areas. | ME and MN south to GA, AL, TX, AZ, and n. Mexico (CHH, SLP, SON). | |
Polygonaceae | Rumex britannica | Great Water Dock | Marshes. | NL west to NU, south to s. NJ, PA, KY, IL, IA, NE. The specimen reported for VA as R. orbiculatus Gray (R. britannica of FNA) in Castanea 42:261 (1977) has subsequently been annotated to R. obtusifolius; no valid collections of R. britannica are known for VA. | |
Polygonaceae | Rumex brownii | Brown's Dock | Lawns, disturbed areas, floodplains, wool-combing waif. | Native of Australia. Reported for Baldwin County, AL (H. Horne, pers. comm., Nov 2015). | |
Polygonaceae | Rumex chrysocarpos | Amamastla Dock | Swamps, disturbed wet areas. | Panhandle FL (where possibly not native?) and se. LA west to TX and ne. Mexico (TAM). Recently discovered in s. AL (Mobile County) (H. Horne, pers. comm., 2018). | |
Polygonaceae | Rumex conglomeratus | Clustered Green Dock | Marshes, disturbed areas, bottomland forests, pastures. | Native of Europe. | |
Polygonaceae | Rumex crispus ssp. crispus | Curly Dock, Yellow Dock | Disturbed areas, pastures, fields. | Native of Europe. | |
Polygonaceae | Rumex cristatus | Greek Dock | Roadsides, railroad margins. | Native of se. Europe. | |
Polygonaceae | Rumex cuneifolius | Disturbed areas, not recently collected and perhaps only a waif. | Native of South America. A rare introduction from South America in AL, FL. | ||
Polygonaceae | Rumex dentatus | Toothed Dock | Disturbed areas, fields, shores. | Native of Eurasia. | |
Polygonaceae | Rumex fascicularis | Swamps and marshes. | Peninsular FL, and perhaps north to se. NC. | ||
Polygonaceae | Rumex floridanus | Florida Dock | Swamps and marshes. | NC south to FL, west to LA. Reported for Orangeburg County, SC (S.W. Leonard, pers. comm.). | |
Polygonaceae | Rumex fueginus | American Golden Dock | Saline marshes, disturbed areas inland. | QC west to AK, south to PA, OH, IN, IL, AR, TX, NM, AZ, CA, and Mexico; s. South America. | |
Polygonaceae | Rumex hymenosepalus | Sand Dock, Wild Rhubarb, Canaigre, Tanner's Dock | Dry sandy areas. | OK, MT, n. NV, and n. CA south to c. and w. TX, NM, AZ, and n. Mexico (BCN, BCS, CHH, COA, SON). | |
Polygonaceae | Rumex longifolius | Yard Dock | Disturbed areas. | Native of Eurasia. | |
Polygonaceae | Rumex maritimus | Golden Dock, Maritime Dock | Ballast and disturbed coastal areas. | Native of Europe. | |
Polygonaceae | Rumex obovatus | Tropical Dock | Maritime shores, riverbanks, pond margins. | Native of South America. | |
Polygonaceae | Rumex obtusifolius | Bitter Dock | Pastures, barnyards, disturbed areas. | Native of Europe. | |
Polygonaceae | Rumex occidentalis | Western Dock | Disturbed areas. | Native of western North America. | |
Polygonaceae | Rumex paraguayensis | Paraguayan Dock | Moist maritime shores. | Native of South America. | |
Polygonaceae | Rumex patientia | Patience Dock, Monk's-rhubarb | Disturbed areas. | Native of Mediterranean Europe. | |
Polygonaceae | Rumex persicarioides | Coastal Dock | Coastal and saline habitats, marshes and shores. | Bicoastal. Long Island NY (historical), n. to MA; disjunct in NL (Newfoundland) and P.E.I. Westward in CA, OR, and BC. | |
Polygonaceae | Rumex pulcher | Fiddle Dock | Disturbed areas, bottomland fields, bottomland forests. | Native of Eurasia. | |
Polygonaceae | Rumex sanguineus | Bloody Dock, Red-veined Dock, Bloody Sorrel, Wood Dock | Disturbed areas. | Native of Europe. Introduced at least as far south as se. PA (Rhoads & Klein 1993), MD, NJ, and AL (Kartesz 1999), perhaps only as a waif. Reported for AL, MS, LA, and VA by Small (1933). | |
Polygonaceae | Rumex spiralis | Texas Tall Dock | Sandy and gravelly shores, usually in moist, calcareous, clayey soils. | Endemic to TX. | |
Polygonaceae | Rumex stenophyllus | Narrowleaf Dock | Disturbed areas, wool-combing mill waste. | Native of Eurasia. | |
Polygonaceae | Rumex triangulivalvis | Willowleaf Dock | Streambanks, ponds, marshes, sloughs, also disturbed areas. | Throughout North America, south to WV, DE, PA, KY, western states, and n. Mexico (CHH, SLP). | |
Polygonaceae | Rumex venosus | Veiny Dock, Wild Begonia, Wild Hydrangea, Sour Greens | Sandy dunes. | WI, MB, SK, AB, WA south to IA, se. OK, n. TX, n. NM, n. AZ, NV, and CA. | |
Polygonaceae | Rumex verticillatus | Swamp Dock | Tidal freshwater marshes and swamps, but also inland in disturbed areas. | QC, ON, MN, and SD, south to s. FL and se. and c. TX. | |
Polygonaceae | Rumex violascens | Violet Dock | Wet areas in bottomlands. | W. TX (Trans-Pecos), s. NM, AZ, and CA south into n. Mexico (BCN, BCS, CHH, COA, SON). |
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