Rumex tuberosusL.

WFO wfo-0000403771 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC0

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Rumex tuberosus, photographed by Татьяна Прозорова
fig. a Татьяна Прозорова, CC0 1.0 / 2019-05-05 / obs. 37997528
Rumex tuberosus, photographed by Татьяна Прозорова
fig. b Татьяна Прозорова, CC0 1.0 / obs. 37997533
Rumex tuberosus, photographed by Татьяна Прозорова
fig. c Татьяна Прозорова, CC0 1.0 / obs. 37997542

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Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Rumex tuberosus is native: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, East Aegean Is., Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, Sicilia, South European Russia, Türkiye-in-Europe AlgeriaMoroccoTunisiaEast Aegean Is.IranIraqLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusPalestineTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanBulgariaGreeceItalyKritiKrymNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaSiciliaSouth European RussiaTürkiye-in-Europe
Native distribution of Rumex tuberosus, 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
Bulgaria BUL EUROPE
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
Sicilia SIC
South European Russia RUS
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
East Aegean Is. EAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Palestine PAL
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

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.

Also published as 6 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 tuberosa Chaz.
  • Rumex creticus Boiss.
  • Rumex euxinus Klokov
  • Rumex tuberosus subsp. euxinus Berod.
  • Rumex tuberosus subsp. euxinus (Klokov) Borodina
  • Rumex tuberosus var. taurocaucasisus Sirj.

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. 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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.