Plants of USA and Canada

Scientific or common name:

Rumex acetosa L.


POLYGONACEAE Family selection - Buckwheat family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Rumex acetosa L. Taxon selection
Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 337 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

US name U.S. name: Garden sorrel
en English name: garden sorrel
English name: sorrel
Spanish name: acedera común
French name: oseille de prés
Italian name: Romice acetosa
German name: Wiesensauerampfer

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial
 

Synonyms:


Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Rumex acetosa L. ssp. acetosa
2) Rumex acetosa L. ssp. alpestris (Jacq.) A. Löve
3) Rumex acetosa L. ssp. lapponicus Hiitonen
4) Rumex acetosa L. ssp. pseudoxyria Tolm.
5) Rumex acetosa L. ssp. thyrsiflorus (Fingerh.) Hayek



TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Caryophyllidae
Order: Polygonales
Family: Polygonaceae
Genus: Rumex
Species:


Page counter: 3009 ( AVG: 218.88 / 217.866 )



Gallery:

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
Credit: Photo by Marinella Zepigi

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
Credit: Photo by Sandro Maggia

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 1: 654.

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
Jose Hernandez - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
Credit: Photo by Gianluca Nicolella - http://www.actaplantarum.org

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
Credit: Photo by Gianluca Nicolella - http://www.actaplantarum.org

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
Credit: Photo by Marinella Zepigi

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
Credit: Photo by Franco Giordana

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
Credit: Photo by Gianluca Nicolella - http://www.actaplantarum.org

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
Credit: Photo by Marinella Zepigi

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
Credit: Photo by Marinella Zepigi

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
Jacob Sturm, Johann Georg Sturm - Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen (1796). - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
Credit: Photo by Sandro Maggia

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
Picture modified from Bley, Franz - Botanisches Bilderbuch (1897/98) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
Credit: Photo by Giorgio Faggi

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
Hippolyte Coste - Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France, de la Corse et des contrées limitrophes, 1901-1906 - This image is in public domain because its copyright has expired.

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
Picture modified from Graebner, Paul - Taschenbuch zum Pflanzenbestimmen (1918) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
Jan Kops et al. - Flora Batava - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Rumex acetosa
Rumex acetosa
Credit: Photo by Marinella Zepigi


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, CT, MA, ME, MI, MN, MT, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, VT, WA, WI, WY), CAN (AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, ON, QC, SK, YT), DEN (GL), FRA (SPM)

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(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA



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More species:
1) Rumex acetosa L. ssp. acetosa [1024]
2) Rumex acetosa L. ssp. alpestris (Jacq.) A. Löve [230]
3) Rumex acetosa L. ssp. pseudoxyria Tolm. [266]
4) Rumex acetosella L. [2295]
5) Rumex albescens Hillebr. [228]
6) Rumex alpinus L. [1117]
7) Rumex aquaticus L. var. fenestratus (Greene) Dorn [315]
8) Rumex conglomeratus Murray [1847]
9) Rumex floridanus Meisn. [323]
10) Rumex maritimus L. var. fueginus (Phil.) Dusén [211]

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