Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 32 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Albania | ALB | EUROPE |
| Austria | AUT | |
| Belgium | BGM | |
| Bulgaria | BUL | |
| Corse | COR | |
| Czechia-Slovakia | CZE | |
| France | FRA | |
| Germany | GER | |
| Greece | GRC | |
| Italy | ITA | |
| Krym | KRY | |
| Netherlands | NET | |
| NW. Balkan Pen. | YUG | |
| Poland | POL | |
| Portugal | POR | |
| Romania | ROM | |
| Sardegna | SAR | |
| Sicilia | SIC | |
| Spain | SPA | |
| Switzerland | SWI | |
| Ukraine | UKR | |
| Altay | ALT | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| Iran | IRN | |
| Iraq | IRQ | |
| Kazakhstan | KAZ | |
| Lebanon-Syria | LBS | |
| North Caucasus | NCS | |
| Transcaucasus | TCS | |
| Türkiye | TUR | |
| Algeria | ALG | AFRICA |
| Canary Is. | CNY | |
| Morocco | MOR |
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 82 in flower of 181 examined
Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Rumex scutatus 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. 82 of 181 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 2 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 13 synonyms
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.
- Acetosa hortensis Garsault
- Acetosa indurata (Boiss. & Reut.) Holub
- Acetosa scutata (L.) Mill.
- Acetosa scutata subsp. hastifolia Á.Löve & KAPOOR
- Acetosa scutata subsp. hastifolius (M.Bieb.) Á.Löve & Kapoor
- Rumex aetnensis C.Presl
- Rumex glaucus Jacq.
- Rumex hastifolius M.Bieb.
- Rumex induratus Boiss. & Reut.
- Rumex scutatus subsp. gallaecicus Lago
- Rumex scutatus subsp. glaucus Gaudin ex E.Wulf
- Rumex scutatus subsp. glaucus (Jacq.) Gaudin ex Wulf
- Rumex scutatus subsp. hastifolius Borod.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- 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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