| Rumex mexicanus Meisn. | |||
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| Family | Polygonaceae — APG family: Polygonaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Rumex triangulivalvis Rech. f. | ||
| Description | Stem erect or ascending, suffused with brown or purple; leaves pale green, gla- brous, the lower linear-lanceolate; inflorescence with elongated, rigid, ascending branches; valves 3-5 mm long, broadly triangular to subcordate, olivaceous to brown, entire in the margin or crenulate-erose at the base, all with a brown grain, narrower than margin. | ||
| Ecology | Rich, often brackish soil. Described from “Mexico circa Leon.” |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.