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Water Dock

Rumex hydrolapathum

1,458Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
66Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb2
Mar19
Apr115
May192
Jun227
Jul308
Aug302
Sep104
Oct40
Nov8
Dec4

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England283
2Worcestershire England79
3Cambridgeshire England56
4Suffolk England52
5Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland41
6Sefton England34
7Doncaster England21
8Oxfordshire England20
9Surrey England18
10Cheshire East England17
11Dudley England16
12Powys Wales13
13Milton Keynes England13
14East Riding of Yorkshire England12
15Lincolnshire England12
1,244 England26 Scotland79 Wales43 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 66 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,458
Peak month
July
Counties with records
66
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Rumex hydrolapathum
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
6,130
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Polygonaceae
Genus
Rumex
Name with authority
Rumex hydrolapathum (Scop.) Huds.
Contributing datasets
35

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q158188 · GBIF 7291247