Rumex hydrolapathum
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Rumex hydrolapathum Huds. (Great Water Dock; Water Dock; Giant Water Dock) is a species of perennial
herbaceous
plants in the genus Rumex
native to fen
s and freshwater banks of Europe
and Western Asia. It is the tallest species in the genus, with flowering stems attaining a height of 1.5-2 m.
It is one of few decaploid organisms, containing 200 individual chromosomes.
Perennial plant
A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives for more than two years. The term is often used to differentiate a plant from shorter lived annuals and biennials. The term is sometimes misused by commercial gardeners or horticulturalists to describe only herbaceous perennials...
herbaceous
Herbaceous
A herbaceous plant is a plant that has leaves and stems that die down at the end of the growing season to the soil level. They have no persistent woody stem above ground...
plants in the genus Rumex
Rumex
The docks and sorrels, genus Rumex L., are a genus of about 200 species of annual, biennial and perennial herbs in the buckwheat family Polygonaceae....
native to fen
Fen
A fen is a type of wetland fed by mineral-rich surface water or groundwater. Fens are characterised by their water chemistry, which is neutral or alkaline, with relatively high dissolved mineral levels but few other plant nutrients...
s and freshwater banks of Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
and Western Asia. It is the tallest species in the genus, with flowering stems attaining a height of 1.5-2 m.
It is one of few decaploid organisms, containing 200 individual chromosomes.