Species: Wood Dock (Rumex sanguineus)
Family: Docks (POLYGONACEAE)
Category: Flowering Plants
Location: NW
A. Flowering Plants
More extensive information on flowering plants can be found in a separate blog post.
B. Docks (POLYGONACEAE)
This large family has many familiar members with swollen stem nodes; hence the alternative name knotweeds. There is a characteristic sheath at the leaf base forming a tube around the stem, the ochrea.
C. Wood Dock (Rumex sanguineus)
The red-veined leaves are characteristic, although not always present. This dock flowers from June. The juice of this and other docks was used to cure boils; or the leaves were boiled and the gelatinous liquid remaining was used.
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Wood Dock
The red-veined leaves of Wood Dock are characteristic, although not always present.
Wood Dock
Wood Dock flowers from June.
Wood Dock
The juice of this and other docks was used to cure boils.
Wood Dock
The leaves of docks were boiled and the gelatinous liquid remaining was used.
