Wood Dock
Rumex sanguineus L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 38 cm
- wide
- 38 cm
Polygonaceae
Also called Bloody Dock, Blood Dock, Blood Sorrel, Red-veined dock
Formerly Acetosa sanguinea, Lapathon sylvaticum, Lapathum nemorosum, Lapathum sanguineum, and 6 more
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.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to N. IranKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 30 cm to 46 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 30 cm to 46 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Red, green, brownRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- French
- Oseille sanguine, Patience sanguine, oseille sanguine
- Czech
- šťovík krvavý
- German
- Hain-Ampfer, Blut-Ampfer, Blutampfer
- Danish
- Skov-skræppe
- Dutch
- Bloedzuring, bloedzuring
- Norwegian Bokmål
- skoghøymol
- Finnish
- verihierakka
- Polish
- Szczaw gajowy
- Japanese
- ニセアレチギシギシ
- Russian
- Щавель кровяной, Щавель кроваво-красный, Щавель красный
- Chinese (China)
- 红脉酸模
- Swedish
- skogsskräppa, vanlig skogsskräppa, blodskräppa
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
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Rumex sanguineus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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