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Rumex crispus, the curly dock, [1] curled dock or yellow dock, is a perennial flowering plant in the family Polygonaceae, native to Europe and Western Asia. [2]
3 lut 2020 · Curly dock (Rumex crispus, also called yellow dock) is one of those plants that is easily overlooked. It doesn’t have a showy flower and the leaves can look kind of generic. Furthermore, it’s not typically as prolific of a weed as dandelion— at least not in urban areas.
Curly dock is found virtually everywhere in the world, naturalized and in some places invasive. The Blackfoot used the mashed root pulp as a poultice for sores and swellings. This plant has medical uses in European herbal medicine as well.
13 kwi 2015 · Curly dock (Rumex crispus), also known as sour dock, yellow dock, narrowleaf dock, or curled dock, is a perennial weed native to Europe, Asia, and parts of Africa. Curly dock was introduced into the U.S., possibly arriving as a seed contaminant in the early 1600’s when the British brought crops and cattle to New England 1.
Curled dock is a very common plant found in gardens, along roadside verges and hedgerows, on waste ground, and by water. As with other docks, it is often considered a weed of arable and disturbed ground, although it may be left alone on grazing land as extra herbage.
Curled Dock (Rumex crispus), also known as Curley Dock or Yellow Dock, is a perennial flowering plant in the family Polygonaceae, native to Europe and western Asia, but invasive in other parts of the world.
28 maj 2024 · Curly dock, known as Navajo tobacco on the Colorado Plateau, grows everywhere except Greenland. Curly dock is remarkably adaptive. It can thrive in disturbed environments, roadsides, on mud in tidal estuaries, meadows, forest edges and shorelines.
