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Curled Dock

Rumex crispus

10,374Records since 2000
JunePeak month
122Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan52
Feb46
Mar195
Apr931
May1,466
Jun2,131
Jul1,912
Aug1,199
Sep687
Oct247
Nov131
Dec56

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England1,022
2Sefton England522
3Argyll and Bute Scotland278
4Halton England260
5Essex England250
6Suffolk England233
7Norfolk England232
8Highland Scotland223
9Portsmouth England184
10Cambridgeshire England161
11Oxfordshire England156
12Devon England126
13Herefordshire, County of England123
14Cumbria England113
15Telford and Wrekin England110
8,377 England1,267 Scotland332 Wales40 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 122 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
10,374
Peak month
June
Counties with records
122
Scientific name
Rumex crispus
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
55,317
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Polygonaceae
Genus
Rumex
Name with authority
Rumex crispus L.
Contributing datasets
58

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 8195144