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|accepted_name=Rumex verticillatus
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 334. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Swamp dock
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Polygonaceae;Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae;Rumex;Rumex subg. Rumex;Rumex sect. Axillares;Rumex verticillatus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polygonaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Rumex]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subgenus</small>[[Rumex subg. Rumex]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Rumex sect. Axillares]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Rumex verticillatus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 5
|mention_page=page 492, 507
|treatment_page=page 505
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, glabrous or nearly so, with vertical rootstock. <b>Stems</b> erect or, rarely, ascending, simple or producing axillary shoots below 1st-order inflorescence or at proximal nodes, 40–100(–150) cm. <b>Leaf</b> blades with lateral veins forming angle of 45–60° with midvein, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, 5–30(–40) × 1–5 cm, usually 5–7(–10) times as long as wide, normally rather thin or at most subcoriaceous, base narrowly cuneate, margins entire, flat or slightly undulate, apex acute or acuminate. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal and axillary, terminal usually occupying distal 1/3–1/2 of stem, usually lax, interrupted at least in basal 1/2, narrowly paniculate. <b>Pedicels</b> articulated in proximal part, distinctly thickened distally, 10–17 mm, (2.5–)3–5 times as long as inner tepals, articulation distinctly or slightly swollen. <b>Flowers</b> 10–15(–25) in remote whorls; inner tepals ovate-triangular or ovate-deltoid, 3.5–5 × 2.5–4 mm, longer than wide or, very rarely, as long as wide, base truncate or rounded, margins entire or, rarely, very indistinctly erose, apex acute or subacute (then with broadly triangular-lingulate tip); tubercles 3, equal or subequal, minutely punctate and/or transversely rugose (wrinkled) in proximal part. <b>Achenes</b> brown or dark brown, 2.3–3.1 × 1.6–2.2 mm. <b>2n</b> = 60.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Swamps, bogs, marshes, wet meadows, irrigation ditches, wet alluvial woods
|elevation=0-800 m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|discussion=<p>Reports of <i>Rumex verticillatus</i> for New Mexico (W. C. Martin and C. R. Hutchins 1980) need confirmation. The species was reported erroneously from Colorado (S. L. O’Kane et al. 1988) as a result of misidentification of <i>R. fueginus</i> (see W. A. Weber and R. C. Wittmann 1992).</p><!--
--><p>I have not seen specimens of <i>Rumex verticillatus</i> from Delaware, Maine, New Hampshire, and New Jersey, but the species probably occurs in those states.</p><!--
--><p>The following two species are closely related to <i>Rumex verticillatus</i> and sometimes treated as subspecies of it.</p>
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name=Rumex verticillatus
|author=
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Polygonaceae
|phenology=Flowering spring–early summer.
|habitat=Swamps, bogs, marshes, wet meadows, irrigation ditches, wet alluvial woods
|elevation=0-800 m
|distribution=Ont.;Que.;Ala.;Ark.;Conn.;Del.;Fla.;Ga.;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;La.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Minn.;Miss.;Mo.;Nebr.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;S.Dak.;Tenn.;Tex.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.;Wis.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
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|subfamily=Polygonaceae subfam. Polygonoideae
|genus=Rumex
|subgenus=Rumex subg. Rumex
|section=Rumex sect. Axillares
|species=Rumex verticillatus
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