Skye Flora

Northern Dock


Rumex longifolius

 

Rumex longifolius

Photo © Carl Farmer
22 Oct 2003 Portree

Occasional in damp grassy places and ditches

Tepals in fruit c 6-7 mm wide and the same in length

Skye ID: The only Skye Dock with no tubercles on any of the 3 hardened petals surrounding the fruit.

Other features: Very similar to the much commoner Broad-leaved Dock with dense fruiting spikes in which the whorls of fruit overlap.  But as well as having no tubercles, the petals are untoothed.

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Rumex longifolius

Photo © Carl Farmer
22 Oct 2003 Portree

 

Rumex longifolius

Photo © Carl Farmer
22 Oct 2003 Portree

  Rumex longifolius

Photo © Carl Farmer
21 Oct 2003 Portree
Ruler divisions 1 mm


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