Participant Info

Species

Rumex crispus

Family

Polygonaceae

CommonName

curly dock, sour dock, yellow dock

Presence

YES

Status

exotic

EarliestDate

1986

LatestDate

2021

Ecosystem

basin, ruderal, urban

Geobotanical

Garitas, SSanjuans, NCristos, UBasin

Counties

Alamosa, Conejos, Costilla, Hinsdale, Mineral, Rio Grande, Saguache, Archuleta

Passes

WildlifePreserves

Baca

Other Localities

La Botica, Del Norte

PhotoRecords

YES Rich Haswell: Rio Grande, Del Norte, between sidewalk and buillding 15 May 20121

Comments

In the Watershed, the familiar curly dock, an exotic from Eurasia, is usually found road side and street side and in other disturbed ground, but it has also naturalized into montane meadows. It probably could be collected from every town in the Valley, as it has been from every state in the USA. It is recorded from the Rio Grande drainage all the way to the Gulf of Mexico.

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