Rumex praecox

Rydberg

Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 33: 137. 1906.

Common names: Early dock
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 5. Treatment on page 517. Mentioned on page 494.

Plants perennial, glabrous (occasionally indistinctly papillose on veins of leaf-blades abaxially), with incrassate creeping rhizome. Stems erect, branched from proximal 1/2 of stem, 20–45 cm. Leaves: ocrea deciduous or partially persistent at maturity; blade oblong or elliptic, sometimes almost orbiculate, 3–7 (–14) × 1.5–5 (–7) cm, ca. 2 (–2.5) times as long as wide, base broadly cuneate or rounded, margins entire or weakly crisped, apex obtuse or subacute. Inflorescences terminal, occupying more than proximal 1/2 of stem, narrowly paniculate. Pedicels articulated in proximal 1/2, filiform, 3–7 mm, articulation indistinct, scarcely visible. Flowers 10–20 in whorls; inner tepals ovate or oblong, 4.5 × 2.5 mm, widest at or near middle, base emarginate or cordate, margins entire or weakly serrate, apex commonly obtuse; tubercles absent. Achenes greenish brown, 2.8–4 × 1.5–2 mm.


Phenology: Flowering late spring.
Habitat: Along streams and river valleys
Elevation: 2400-3000 m

Discussion

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

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"/2" is not declared as a valid unit of measurement for this property.

... more about "Rumex praecox"
unwinged +  and weakly winged +
greenish brown +
0.28 cm2.8 mm <br />0.0028 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
pyramidal +, compressed-3-gonous +  and 3-gonous +
1.5mm;2mm +
yellow +  and brownish yellow +
ovate +  and elongate +
obtuse;subacute;obtuse +
visible +  and indistinct +
Sergei L. Mosyakin +
Rydberg +
not articulated +
cordate +, emarginate +, rounded +  and cuneate +
7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br /> (14 cm140 mm <br />0.14 m <br />) +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br />) +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br />) +
orbiculate;elliptic;oblong +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
foliaceous +  and perfoliate +
scale-like +
tuberculate +
just below the soil surface or and above the soil surface +  and spreading +
Early dock +
Colo. +  and Wyo. +
2400-3000 m +
free +  and distinct +
unisexual +, bisexual +  and , +
disarticulating +  and solid +
decumbent to erect +  and prostrate +
unwinged +  and winged +
black +, red +, brown +  and yellowish +
exserted +  and included +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
spheroidal +, 4-gonous +, lenticular +, biconvex +, discoid +, 3-gonous +  and 2-gonous +
Along streams and river valleys +
4.5 cm45 mm <br />0.045 m <br /> (?) +
always distinctly wider and longer +
oblong +  and ovate +
widest +  and 2.5 +
nonmembranous +
deciduous +
cauline +  and basal +
serrate +  and entire +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
crisped +  and entire +
smaller +
narrower +
swollen +
partly +  and foliaceous +
persistent +  and deciduous +
cylindric +
membranous +
anatropous +, , +  and orthotropous +
accrescent +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
spreading;erect +
red;pinkish;red;pinkish;green +
campanulate +
accrescent +
fleshy +, indurate +  and membranous +
Flowering late spring. +
(2-)3(-4)-carpellate +
Bull. Torrey Bot. Club +
incrassate +
slender;stout +
papillose-pubescent +  and glabrous +
20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br /> (45 cm450 mm <br />0.45 m <br />) +
plumose +  and fimbriate +
deciduous +  and persistent +
2-lobed +  and cylindric +
coriaceous +  and membranous +
distinct +
reflexed;spreading +
spreading;erect +
Rumex sect. Simplices +
Rumex praecox +
Rumex sect. Rumex +
species +
lobed +  and laciniate +
coriaceous +
persistent +
membranous +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
stoloniferous +  and rhizomatous +
10 +, 9 +, 8 +  and 7 +