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§1 Plant

Rumex pulcher L.

vernacular fiddle dock — species · Polygonaceae


USDA
RUPU3
GBIF
2888978
Rank
species
fiddle dock (Rumex pulcher)
Platephotograph · Konstantinos Kalaentzis source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Polygonaceae Juss.
Genus
Rumex
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 192 counties across 17 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 192 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 192 counties across 17 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 5 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 23 I
Florida view state ↗ 17 I
Georgia view state ↗ 6 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 4 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 58 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 28 I
Missouri view state ↗ 1 I
New Mexico view state ↗ 2 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 8 I
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 2 I
South Carolina view state ↗ 9 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 5 I
Virginia view state ↗ 21 I
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/RUPU3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/2888978 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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