WorldFloraDB - Rumex hydrolapathum

Characteristics

A robust plant which keeps growing from year to year. It grows 1.2-2 m high. In shallow water it produces aerating roots. The leaves are narrow and dark green. They are spear shaped and 1 m long. The flowers are in a brownish-pink spike. They are on stalks 2 m long.

Life form

perennial

Growth form

herb

Growth support

-

Foliage retention

deciduous

Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

anemogamy

Spread

hydrochory

Mature width (meter)

-

Mature height (meter)

1.8

Root system

-

Rooting depth (meter)

-

Root diameter (meter)

-

Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

-

Fruiting months

-

Nitrogen fixer

-

Photosynthetic pathway

c3

Environment

Near ponds and streams, also in shallow water, avoiding acid conditions. Bogs, and banks of rivers, lakes, and brooks.

More

It is a temperate plant. It grows in wet places. It can grow in shallow water.

Light
Soil humidity
Soil texture
Soil acidity
Soil nutriment
Hardiness (USDA)

Usage

The starch of the root is used as a famine food for extending bread flour, after removal of toxic elements. The leaves are roasted and used in pies.

Uses	dye environmental use food leaf vegetable medicinal tanning
Edible	leaves roots seeds
Therapeutic use	Tumor (unspecified), Cancer (unspecified)
Human toxicity	skin-irritating (whole)
Animal toxicity	weak toxic (whole)

Cultivation

Plants self seed easily.

Mode	seedlings
Germination duration (days)	-
Germination temperacture (C°)	22
Germination luminosity	-
Germination treatment	-
Minimum temperature (C°)	-
Optimum temperature (C°)	-
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-