Rumex

Rumex
Patience dock
(Rumex patientia)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Polygonaceae
Subfamily: Polygonoideae
Genus: Rumex
L. 1753
Type species
Rumex patientia
L.
Species

About 200, see text

Synonyms
  • Acetosa Tourn. ex Mill.
  • Acetosella (Meisn.) Fourr.
  • Analiton Raf.
  • Atecosa Raf.
  • Bucephalophora Pau
  • Centopodium Burch.
  • Emex Neck. ex Campd.
  • Eutralia Raf.
  • Lapathon Raf.
  • Lapathum Mill.
  • Menophyla Raf.
  • Nemolapathum Ehrh.
  • Oxylapathon St.-Lag.
  • Rhodoptera Raf.
  • Steinmannia Opiz
  • Tomaris Raf.
  • Vibo Medik.
  • Vibones Raf.

The docks and sorrels, genus Rumex, are a genus of about 200 species of annual, biennial, and perennial herbs in the buckwheat family, Polygonaceae. Members of this genus are common perennial herbs with a worldwide native distribution in temperate and subtropical climates.

Some are nuisance weeds (and are sometimes called dockweed or dock weed), but some are grown for their edible leaves. Rumex species are used as food plants by the larvae of a number of Lepidoptera species, and are the only host plants of the butterflies Lycaena dispar and Lycaena rubidus.

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