Rumex chrysocarpus
Family: Polygonaceae
Plant Description: Perennial to 75 cm high with elliptic or oblong-linear leaves 8-17 cm long, alternate. Stems often reddish. Flowers small, greenish, in somewhat condensed inflorescences; sepals 6, the inner 3 growing in the size to surround the fruit. Fruiting perianth about 4 mm long.
Plant Trivia:
Specific epithet chrysocarpus is derived from two Greek words for “golden” and “fruit.”
Field Identification:
Occurrence: Common in heavier sands in ditches, swales, streams bottoms and other well-watered places.,
Bloom Period: February-December
Plant Use:
Key to species of Rumex is found in Plants of the Texas Coastal Bend by Roy L. Leyman, Ruth O’Brien and Tammy White.
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