Curled dock
Rumex crispus L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 1.5 m
- wide
- —
Polygonaceae
Also called Curly dock, Curled Sorrel, Curly Rumex, Curly Sorrel, Narrow Dock
Formerly Lapathum crispum
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Annual or perennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Macaronesia, N. Africa, Temp. EurasiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 1.5 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, green, brownRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- ixcaua, xocoquilit, RUMCRI
- Spanish
- Lengua de vaca eurasiática, Romaza
- Finnish
- poimuhierakka
- French
- Oseille crépue, Patience crépue
- German
- Krauser Ampfer
- Russian
- Щавель курчавый
- Hebrew
- חומעה מסולסלת
- Czech
- šťovík kadeřavý
- Chinese
- 皺葉酸模
- Danish
- Kruset skræppe
- Dutch
- Krulzuring
- Portuguese
- Catacuz, labaça-crespa, regalo-da-horta
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Rumex crispus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.