Rumex

Accepted species 152 Documented here 64 Family Polygonaceae

Accepted species 152 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Rumex crispus L. 4,759 documented
Rumex obtusifolius L. 4,372 documented
Rumex acetosella L. 3,675 documented
Rumex acetosa L. 1,316 documented
Rumex confertus Willd. 815 documented
Rumex sagittatus Thunb. 525 documented
Rumex thyrsiflorus Fingerh. 391 documented
Rumex pseudonatronatus (Borbás) Murb. 335 documented
Rumex hymenosepalus Torr. 322 documented
Rumex maritimus L. 322 documented
Rumex conglomeratus Murray 313 documented
Rumex sanguineus L. 289 documented
Rumex aquaticus L. 285 documented
Rumex pulcher L. 230 documented
Rumex cristatus DC. 219 documented
Rumex hydrolapathum Huds. 181 documented
Rumex hastatulus Baldwin 177 documented
Rumex alpinus L. 158 documented
Rumex bucephalophorus L. 141 documented
Rumex scutatus L. 123 documented
Rumex verticillatus L. 117 documented
Rumex brownii Campd. 115 documented
Rumex stenophyllus Ledeb. 111 documented
Rumex lunaria L. 98 documented
Rumex maderensis Lowe 81 documented
Rumex triangulivalvis (Danser) Rech.f. 79 documented
Rumex vesicarius L. 77 documented
Rumex longifolius DC. 69 documented
Rumex venosus Pursh 65 documented
Rumex usambarensis (Engl. ex Dammer) Dammer 62 documented
Rumex patientia L. 60 documented
Rumex alpestris Jacq. 53 documented
Rumex japonicus Houtt. 50 documented
Rumex cordatus Desf. ex Poir. 48 documented
Rumex salicifolius Weinm. 46 documented
Rumex altissimus Alph.Wood 44 documented
Rumex occidentalis S.Watson 44 documented
Rumex britannica L. 42 documented
Rumex dentatus L. 23 documented
Rumex skottsbergii O.Deg. & I.Deg. 21 documented
Rumex paucifolius Nutt. 20 documented
Rumex palustris Sm. 17 documented
Rumex cyprius Murb. 15 documented
Rumex ucranicus Fisch. 15 documented
Rumex crassus Rech.f. 14 documented
Rumex albescens Hillebr. 13 documented
Rumex thyrsoides Desf. 13 documented
Rumex lativalvis Meisn. 11 documented
Rumex maricola J.Rémy 11 documented
Rumex hastatus D.Don 10 documented
Rumex californicus Rech.f. 9 documented
Rumex intermedius DC. 9 documented
Rumex tolimensis Wedd. 9 documented
Rumex transitorius Rech.f. 9 documented
Rumex orthoneurus Rech.f. 7 documented
Rumex densiflorus Osterh. 5 documented
Rumex giganteus W.T.Aiton 5 documented
Rumex lacustris Greene 4 documented
Rumex roseus L. 4 documented
Rumex rugosus Campd. 4 documented
Rumex trisetifer Stokes 4 documented
Rumex woodii N.E.Br. 4 documented
Rumex rossicus Murb. 3 documented
Rumex tuberosus L. 3 documented
Rumex lanceolatus Thunb. 2 below the evidence gate
Rumex pallidus Bigelow 2 below the evidence gate
Rumex mexicanus Meisn. 1 below the evidence gate
Rumex nepalensis Spreng. 1 below the evidence gate
Rumex nivalis Hegetschw. 1 below the evidence gate
Rumex persicarioides L. 1 below the evidence gate
Rumex sibiricus Hultén 1 below the evidence gate
Rumex × digeneus Beck 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex × dufftii Hausskn. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex × fallacinus Hausskn. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex × heterophyllus Schultz 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex × hybridus Kindb. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex × muretii Hausskn. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex × pratensis Mert. & W.D.J.Koch 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex × ujskensis Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex abyssinicus Jacq. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex aegyptiacus L. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex amurensis F.Schmidt 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex andinus Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex angulatus Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex aquitanicus Rechinger 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex argentinus Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex azoricus Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex balcanicus Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex beringensis Jurtzev & V.V.Petrovsky 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex bipinnatus L.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex brasiliensis Link 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex chalepensis Mill. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex chrysocarpus Moris 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex costaricensis Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex crispellus Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex crispissimus Kuntze 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex darwinianus Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex dregeanus Meisn. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex ellipticus Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex fascicularis Small 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex floridanus Meisn. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex foliosus Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex frutescens Thouars 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex garipensis Meisn. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex gmelinii Turcz. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex graminifolius Georgi ex Lamb. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex hesperius Greene 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex insularis (Tolm.) Czerep. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex krausei Jurtzev & V.V.Petrovsky 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex leptocaulis Brandbyge & Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex lorentzianus Lindau 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex magellanicus Campd. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex marschallianus Rchb. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex microcarpus Campd. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex nebroides Campd. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex nematopodus Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex nervosus Vahl 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex oblongifolius Tolm. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex obovatus Danser 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex pamiricus Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex papilio Coss. & Balansa 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex paraguayensis D.Parodi 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex patagonicus Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex paulsenianus Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex peruanus Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex pictus Forssk. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex planivalvis (Murb.) Murb. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex polycarpus Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex popovii Pachom. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex praecox Rydb. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex pseudoxyria A.P.Khokhr. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex pycnanthus Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex rectinervis Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex rhodesius Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex romassa J.Rémy 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex rupestris Le Gall 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex ruwenzoriensis Chiov. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex schischkinii Losinsk. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex similans Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex simpliciflorus Murb. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex spathulatus Thunb. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex spiralis Small 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex steudelii Hochst. ex A.Braun 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex subarcticus Lepage 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex suffruticosus J.Gay ex Meisn. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex thianschanicus Losinsk. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex tingitanus L. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex tomentellus Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex turcomanicus (Rech.f.) Czerep. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex utahensis Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex violascens Rech.f. 0 below the evidence gate
Rumex yungningensis Sam. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.