Dock
By LoveToKnow
Dock (Rumex) - The only one worth growing is our great native Water Dock (R. Hydrolapathum).
Yellow dock information
Yellow dock
Yellow dock - Rumex crispus/obtusifolius (in the Polygonaceae or Buckwheat family) ...
Dock souffle is prepared by cleaning a dock plant and placing it in a pot with hot water and a little salt. After it reaches boiling point, the plant is taken out of the pot, and cut finely.
Bladder Dock is an annual, 10-30 cm high, branching from the base. Beanches are somewhat succulent, glaucous and fragile. Stalked leaves are triangular-arrow-shaped, entire. Flower racemes are simple or branched.
SILL-fee-um Common Name: Prairie dock, Rosinweed
These perennials are native to prairies and open woods of Canada and the central and eastern U.S. They have daisy-like, yellow blossoms and resinous sap that is harshly scented.
Additional Comments: The Romans used yellow dock for skin complaints, and Gerard said 'it purifieth the blood and makes young wenches look fair and cherry like'.
Yellow Dock
Rumex crispus
MEDICINAL: Yellow Dock is a powerful blood purifier and astringent. It is used in treating all diseases of the blood and skin. It is very high in iron, making it useful for treating anemia.
(dock family)
TOXICITY RATING: Low, unless animals are fed the leaves intentionally.
ANIMALS AFFECTED: All animals may be affected, those being fed garden trimmings are particularly at risk (cattle, swine, sheep and goats).
Western Dock; aka,
Giant Dock or Red Dock
When I posted some photos to a gardening newsgroup & said, "I need a name for this," one wit suggested Fred, so it has ever since been Fred.
Sand Catchfly, Sand Catstail, Sand Couch, Sand Crocus, Sand Leek, Sand Sedge, Sand Spurrey, Sanicle, Saw-wort, Scarlet Pimpernel, Scented Mayweed, Scentless Mayweed, Scorched Alpine Sedge, Scots Lovage, Scots Pine, Scottish Asphodel, Scottish Dock, ...
Several species of the dock genus (Rumex) are sorrels (the common name used also for the similarly acrid but unrelated ).
Herbs: sedges (Carex spp.), bulrushes (Scirpus spp.), rushes (Juncus spp.), foxtail barley (Critestion jubatum), reed canarygrass (Phalaris arundinaceae), oakleaf goosefoot (Chenopodium glaucum), curled dock (Rumex crispus), ...
It is a strange fact that the juice of the Nettle proves an antidote for its own sting, and being applied will afford instant relief: the juice of the Dock, which is usually found in close proximity to the Nettle, has the same beneficial action.
Young building loading dock.
leaves alternate, simple, 3-lobed (contrast to P. quinquefolia)
leaves on young shoots may be trifoliate
leaves with coarsely serrate margins, glossy, dark green, develop bright fall color ...
Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink - at least not for the portulacas in this planter box on Steve's dock.
Pouteria species yield hard, heavy, resilient woods used as firewood, timber, but particularly in outdoor and naval construction, such as dock pilings, deckings, etc.
Rumex hymenosepalus (Dock, Sorrel, Wild Rhubarb)
Polygonaceae (Buckwheat Family)
It is common to find Rumex hymenosepalus adjacent to Anasazi ruins.
Rumex hymenosepalus (Dock, Sorrel, Wild Rhubarb)
Polygonaceae (Buckwheat Family) ...
The Weeds Act specifies five injurious weeds: common ragwort, spear thistle, creeping or field thistle, broad-leaved dock and curled dock.
Removal of large weeds with tap roots, such as dock or dandelion, can be achieved quite easily by using a sharp spade.
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Examples of flowers that preserve well by this method are baby's breath, cattail, statice, celosia, dock, goldenrod, heather and pussy willow. Flowers dried in this manner are extremely stiff once dried.
Rumex crispus. Curly Dock. Tobacco Root Mountains. Pony, Montana.
There are more
Buckwheat Family pictures
at the Texas A&M Biometrics Experimental Database.
Sorrel
Common sorrel, also known as spinach dock and either ambada bhaji or gongoora in Indian cuisine, is a perennial herb that is cultivated as a leaf vegetable ...
Pale Smartweed (Nodding Smartweed, Dock-leaved Smartweed)
Polygonum lapathifolium ...
Frequently these are the best means, though laborious. Deep-rooted weeds such as bindweed, dock, coltsfoot, and ground elder cannot be destroyed readily by chemical means. If their roots are dug out to a depth of 18-24 in. and More > ...
Growing up on the prairies of Oklahoma, one of the first trees I learned was the hedge apple or "bow dock" as we ungrammatically called it.
Less similar is Dock-Leaved Smartweed also know as Curlytop Knotweed, Nodding or Pale Smartweed (P. Lapathifolium) can reach 2m (6') in height and has longer, slender flower spikes that droop and are white, pink or green.
Distribution
Confined to the coastal area of Sydney between northern Sydney in the south and Maroota in the north-west. Former range extended south to the Parramatta River and Port Jackson region including Five Dock, Bellevue Hill and Manly.
Flowers heavily, but briefly, in spring or summer.
Sun to part shade.
Hardy to USDA Zone 6 Introduced in 1968 by a nursery in Hanover, Germany.
Oregon State Univ. campus: in the parking lot behind Cordley Hall, near loading dock.
 See also: May, Green, Medic, Grass, Pink
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