Rumex confertusWilld.

Asiatic dock

WFO wfo-0000403630 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Rumex confertus, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. a Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205686800
Rumex confertus, photographed by Нурхайдарова Татьяна
fig. b Нурхайдарова Татьяна, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205195312
Rumex confertus, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. c Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204642123
Rumex confertus, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. d Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204655584
Rumex confertus, photographed by Miriam
fig. e Miriam, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204410464
Rumex confertus, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. f Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204445635
Rumex confertus, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. g Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203933391
Rumex confertus, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. h Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203903692

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Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Rumex confertus is native: Altay, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Krasnoyarsk, Transcaucasus, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Baltic States, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, Hungary, Italy, Krym, Northwest European Russia, Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Ukraine AltayIrkutskKazakhstanKrasnoyarskTranscaucasusUzbekistanWest SiberiaXinjiangBaltic StatesBelarusBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaHungaryItalyKrymNorthwest European RussiaPolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaUkraine
Native distribution of Rumex confertus, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Baltic States BLT EUROPE
Belarus BLR
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Krym KRY
Northwest European Russia RUW
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Transcaucasus TCS
Uzbekistan UZB
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 50 in flower of 264 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Rumex confertus observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 50 of 264 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 1 synonym

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Rumex alpinus var. subcalligerus Boiss.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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