Rumex fueginus

Golden dock

Family: Polygonaceae · Type: annual · Native

Golden dock is a California native annual found in riparian areas, disturbed places, shores, marshes, bogs, and wet meadows at elevations below 2,000 meters. Flowering from May to August, this plant produces green-yellow to red-brown flowers in dense, interrupted terminal whorls with 15 to 30 flowers. Growing with prostrate to erect stems 15 to 60 centimeters tall, it has a vertical taproot and typically branches with hollow stems. Its lance-linear to lanceolate leaves range from 5 to 25 centimeters long, with cordate or truncate bases and entire to wavy margins. The inner perianth lobes feature distinctive thin, bristle-like teeth, and each plant develops three roughly equal tubercles that are lance-linear and often brown or reddish.

Habitat: Riparian, disturbed places, shores, marshes, bogs, wet meadows

Bloom period: May-Aug

Elevation: < 2000 m

Bioregions: CA

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.