Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Rumex tenax
Common name
Shiny dock, Narrow-leaf dock
Family
Polygonaceae
Where found
Woodland, grassy areas, disturbed sites, lake shores, and other moist sites. Sydney area and north. ACT. Occasionally tablelands and the Western Slopes.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.50 m tall. Leaves basal and alternating up the stems, with a sheath at the base of the stalk, hairless, margins flat to tightly wavy, tips pointed. Basal leaves 8-16 cm long, about 3-5 mm wide, upper leaves smaller, very narrow. Flowers small, with 6 'petals', in whorls of 12 to many flowers, the whorls mostly 1–5 cm apart. Seed cases with 1-2 pairs of straight to curved teeth on each side. Flowers sporadically all year.
Hybridizes with Rumex brownii.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Rumex~tenax (accessed 4 February, 2021)
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