Rumex hastatulusBaldwin

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WFO wfo-0001101073 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Rumex hastatulus, photographed by Cleveland Powell
fig. a Cleveland Powell, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-26 / obs. 185042286
Rumex hastatulus, photographed by Arturo Santos
fig. b Arturo Santos, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 127788124
Rumex hastatulus, photographed by Josh
fig. c Josh, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 131947729
Rumex hastatulus, photographed by Michael W Belitz
fig. d Michael W Belitz, CC0 1.0 / obs. 115465255
Rumex hastatulus, photographed by Scott Allen Davis
fig. e Scott Allen Davis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 110988932
Rumex hastatulus, photographed by Jessica
fig. f Jessica, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 79872708
Rumex hastatulus, photographed by Clay
fig. g Clay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 147793854
Rumex hastatulus, photographed by Alan Weakley
fig. h Alan Weakley, CC0 1.0 / obs. 35849328

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Native range 20 botanical countries

Regions where Rumex hastatulus is native: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia AlabamaArkansasFloridaGeorgiaIllinoisIndianaKansasLouisianaMarylandMississippiMissouriNew MexicoNew YorkNorth CarolinaOklahomaPennsylvaniaSouth CarolinaTennesseeTexasVirginia
Native distribution of Rumex hastatulus, 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
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Arkansas ARK
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Illinois ILL
Indiana INI
Kansas KAN
Louisiana LOU
Maryland MRY
Mississippi MSI
Missouri MSO
New Mexico NWM
New York NWY
North Carolina NCA
Oklahoma OKL
Pennsylvania PEN
South Carolina SCA
Tennessee TEN
Texas TEX
Virginia VRG

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 78 in flower of 113 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Rumex hastatulus 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. 78 of 113 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 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 engelmannii Ledeb. ex Meisn.

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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