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§1 Plant
Rumex maritimus L.
vernacular golden dock — species · Polygonaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual, Biennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Polygonaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Rumex
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Introduced
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b
County-level range
· 369 counties across 27 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- None
- Shade
- Medium
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- Medium
- Anaerobic
- High
- CaCO₃
- Low
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 135 min.
- Precipitation
- 14–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–8.2
- Root depth
- 12 in min.
- Fertility need
- Low
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Mature height
- 2 ft
- Foliage texture
- Coarse
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Late Spring
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Moderate
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 300,000
- Propagation
- seed, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Browse palatability
- Low
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Protein potential
- Low
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 369 counties across 27 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 2 N ▾
Colorado view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Idaho view state ↗ 19 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 14 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 22 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 58 N ▾
- Aitkin 27001
- Anoka 27003
- Becker 27005
- Beltrami 27007
- Benton 27009
- Big Stone 27011
- Blue Earth 27013
- Brown 27015
- Carver 27019
- Cass 27021
- Chippewa 27023
- Clay 27027
- Clearwater 27029
- Cottonwood 27033
- Crow Wing 27035
- Dakota 27037
- Douglas 27041
- Faribault 27043
- Freeborn 27047
- Goodhue 27049
- Hennepin 27053
- Isanti 27059
- Itasca 27061
- Jackson 27063
- Kandiyohi 27067
- Kittson 27069
- Koochiching 27071
- Lac qui Parle 27073
- Lake of the Woods 27077
- Le Sueur 27079
- Lincoln 27081
- Mahnomen 27087
- Marshall 27089
- Martin 27091
- Meeker 27093
- Mille Lacs 27095
- Morrison 27097
- Murray 27101
- Nobles 27105
- Norman 27107
- Otter Tail 27111
- Pennington 27113
- Polk 27119
- Ramsey 27123
- Red Lake 27125
- Rice 27131
- Roseau 27135
- Scott 27139
- Sherburne 27141
- St. Louis 27137
- Stearns 27145
- Stevens 27149
- Swift 27151
- Traverse 27155
- Washington 27163
- Watonwan 27165
- Wilkin 27167
- Wright 27171
Missouri view state ↗ 15 N ▾
Montana view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Nebraska view state ↗ 38 N ▾
- Antelope 31003
- Brown 31017
- Buffalo 31019
- Cass 31025
- Cherry 31031
- Cheyenne 31033
- Clay 31035
- Cuming 31039
- Custer 31041
- Dawes 31045
- Dawson 31047
- Deuel 31049
- Dixon 31051
- Dodge 31053
- Douglas 31055
- Dundy 31057
- Furnas 31065
- Garden 31069
- Grant 31075
- Hall 31079
- Harlan 31083
- Holt 31089
- Hooker 31091
- Howard 31093
- Keith 31101
- Knox 31107
- Lincoln 31111
- Morrill 31123
- Richardson 31147
- Sarpy 31153
- Saunders 31155
- Scotts Bluff 31157
- Sheridan 31161
- Sherman 31163
- Sioux 31165
- Stanton 31167
- Webster 31181
- Wheeler 31183
New Hampshire view state ↗ 2 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 3 N ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 6 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 13 N ▾
North Dakota view state ↗ 40 N ▾
- Barnes 38003
- Benson 38005
- Billings 38007
- Bottineau 38009
- Burke 38013
- Burleigh 38015
- Cass 38017
- Cavalier 38019
- Dickey 38021
- Divide 38023
- Dunn 38025
- Eddy 38027
- Emmons 38029
- Foster 38031
- Golden Valley 38033
- Grand Forks 38035
- Griggs 38039
- Kidder 38043
- Logan 38047
- McHenry 38049
- McIntosh 38051
- McLean 38055
- Mercer 38057
- Mountrail 38061
- Nelson 38063
- Oliver 38065
- Pembina 38067
- Ramsey 38071
- Ransom 38073
- Richland 38077
- Rolette 38079
- Sargent 38081
- Slope 38087
- Stark 38089
- Steele 38091
- Stutsman 38093
- Traill 38097
- Walsh 38099
- Ward 38101
- Williams 38105
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Rhode Island view state ↗ 1 N ▾
South Dakota view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Bennett 46007
- Brookings 46011
- Brule 46015
- Charles Mix 46023
- Clark 46025
- Clay 46027
- Codington 46029
- Corson 46031
- Custer 46033
- Day 46037
- Dewey 46041
- Fall River 46047
- Hamlin 46057
- Hutchinson 46067
- Kingsbury 46077
- Lawrence 46081
- Lincoln 46083
- Marshall 46091
- McCook 46087
- Meade 46093
- Minnehaha 46099
- Pennington 46103
- Spink 46115
- Stanley 46117
- Union 46127
- Yankton 46135
Texas view state ↗ 10 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 2 N ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Brown 55009
- Buffalo 55011
- Clark 55019
- Columbia 55021
- Dane 55025
- Dodge 55027
- Door 55029
- Douglas 55031
- Dunn 55033
- Jefferson 55055
- Lincoln 55069
- Manitowoc 55071
- Marinette 55075
- Menominee 55078
- Oconto 55083
- Pepin 55091
- Pierce 55093
- Polk 55095
- Rock 55105
- Shawano 55115
- Sheboygan 55117
- St. Croix 55109
- Walworth 55127
- Washburn 55129
- Waushara 55137
- Winnebago 55139
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/RUMA4 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2888980 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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