Rumex acetosella

Rumex acetosella L., Sp. Pl.: 338 (1753) (syn: Acetosa acetosella (L.) Mill. ; Acetosella acetosella (L.) Small ; Lapathum acetosella (L.) Scop. ; Pauladolfia acetosella (L.) Börner ; Rumex acetosella var. vulgaris Roth ; Rumex infestus Salisb.);
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Temp. Eurasia: Albania, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Central European Russia, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, Eswatini, Finland, France, Free State, Føroyar, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Kuril Is., KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Madeira, Magadan, Manchuria, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, North Caucasus, North European Russia, Northern Provinces, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Romania, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Sicilia, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Transcaucasus, Tuva, Türkey, Ukraine, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya; Introduced into: Alabama, Alaska, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Amsterdam-St.Paul Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, British Columbia, California, Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Crozet Is., Cuba, Delaware, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Falkland Is., Florida, Georgia, Guatemala, Haiti, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Jamaica, Japan, Juan Fernández Is., Kansas, Kentucky, Kenya, Kerguelen, Labrador, Louisiana, Maine, Manitoba, Marion-Prince Edward Is., Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Mozambique, Nansei-shoto, Nebraska, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, New Zealand North, Newfoundland, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Panamá, Pennsylvania, Peru, Prince Edward I., Queensland, Québec, Rhode I., Réunion, Saskatchewan, South Australia, South Carolina, South Dakota, South Georgia, Sri Lanka, St.Helena, Svalbard, Tasmania, Tennessee, Texas, Tristan da Cunha, Uruguay, Utah, Venezuela, Vermont, Victoria, Vietnam, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Western Australia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Yukon, Zimbabwe as per POWO;
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Sattal May 2025 :: Rumex hastatus :: ARK2025-046: 3 high res. images.
This was clicked at Binayak near Nainital, Uttarakhand in May 2025.
I believe this is Rumex hastatus. Kindly validate.


Rumex acetosella L. ??


do you mean R. acetosa?
I could not find R. acetosella in the database.


Thank you.


Leaves look different.


On further checking, leaves also match as per
http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=50768&flora_id=2


 


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References:
POWO  GBIF (High resolution specimens)  Flora of China  FOC illustration  India Flora Online  Wikipedia  Useful Tropical Plants iNaturalist  NCSU

Updated on August 26, 2025

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