Scientific name: Rumex conglomeratus Murr.
Common name: Clustered Dock
Description
Habit: A hairless perennial, to 80 cm high.
Stems: Erect, slender, branched from the base.
Leaves: Alternate, undivided, untoothed, oblong-lanceolate, with the margin slightly wavy; stipules united to form a sheath surrounding stem or leaf stalk.
Flowers: Actinomorphic, stalked, in whorls forming slender and sparse terminal and axillary panicles, with long spreading branches and the whorls of flowers clearly separated, leafy in the lower half; tepals 6, oblong and 2-3 mm long, not winged, inner 3 larger and enlarging in fruit, with swellings; stamens 6; ovary superior, 1-celled, style 3.
Fruits: A small nut, 3-angled.
Habitat: Marshes, wet ground, especially on trodden and disturbed ground.Distribution: Occasional to frequent and abundant.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No