Common name:
Water dock
Family:
Scientific name:
Rumex hydrolapathum
Main flower color:
Range:
Most of the British Isles; absent from high elevation regions and northern Scotland
Height:
Up to 2 m
Habitat:
Marshes, river banks, lakesides
Flowers:
The three inner tepals are triangular in shape and green in colour, each with a prominent white tubercle at the centre, and a few small green teeth at the attachment point. Flowers form in relatively well-separated whorls on the stems of the much-branched inflorescence, and they tend to hang downwards
Leaves:
Ovate to lanceolate, up to 80 cm long, pointed at the tip and relatively broad at the base. Margins are somewhat irregular
Season:
July to September
Rarity:
★★★★★
