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§1 Plant
Rumex pulcher L.
vernacular fiddle dock — species · Polygonaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Polygonaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Rumex
§2a
Native status, by region
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 258 counties across 20 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 258 counties across 20 states/territories.
Arkansas view state ↗ 23 I ▾
- Ashley 05003
- Bradley 05011
- Chicot 05017
- Clark 05019
- Cleburne 05023
- Cleveland 05025
- Crawford 05033
- Dallas 05039
- Desha 05041
- Drew 05043
- Faulkner 05045
- Franklin 05047
- Garland 05051
- Hempstead 05057
- Howard 05061
- Jackson 05067
- Jefferson 05069
- Little River 05081
- Miller 05091
- Pulaski 05119
- Saline 05125
- Union 05139
- Washington 05143
California view state ↗ 28 I ▾
- Alameda 06001
- Amador 06005
- Butte 06007
- Calaveras 06009
- Contra Costa 06013
- Humboldt 06023
- Kern 06029
- Lake 06033
- Marin 06041
- Mendocino 06045
- Merced 06047
- Monterey 06053
- Nevada 06057
- Plumas 06063
- Sacramento 06067
- San Diego 06073
- San Francisco 06075
- San Luis Obispo 06079
- San Mateo 06081
- Santa Barbara 06083
- Santa Clara 06085
- Santa Cruz 06087
- Shasta 06089
- Solano 06095
- Sonoma 06097
- Tehama 06103
- Tulare 06107
- Tuolumne 06109
Florida view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 58 I ▾
- Acadia 22001
- Allen 22003
- Ascension 22005
- Assumption 22007
- Avoyelles 22009
- Beauregard 22011
- Bienville 22013
- Bossier 22015
- Caddo 22017
- Calcasieu 22019
- Caldwell 22021
- Cameron 22023
- Catahoula 22025
- Claiborne 22027
- Concordia 22029
- De Soto 22031
- East Baton Rouge 22033
- East Carroll 22035
- East Feliciana 22037
- Evangeline 22039
- Franklin 22041
- Grant 22043
- Iberia 22045
- Jackson 22049
- Jefferson 22051
- Jefferson Davis 22053
- Lafayette 22055
- Lafourche 22057
- LaSalle 22059
- Lincoln 22061
- Livingston 22063
- Madison 22065
- Morehouse 22067
- Natchitoches 22069
- Orleans 22071
- Ouachita 22073
- Pointe Coupee 22077
- Rapides 22079
- Red River 22081
- Richland 22083
- Sabine 22085
- St. Bernard 22087
- St. Charles 22089
- St. Helena 22091
- St. John the Baptist 22095
- St. Landry 22097
- St. Martin 22099
- St. Mary 22101
- St. Tammany 22103
- Tangipahoa 22105
- Tensas 22107
- Terrebonne 22109
- Union 22111
- Washington 22117
- Webster 22119
- West Carroll 22123
- West Feliciana 22125
- Winn 22127
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 28 I ▾
- Amite 28005
- Carroll 28015
- Forrest 28035
- Hinds 28049
- Issaquena 28055
- Jackson 28059
- Jasper 28061
- Jefferson 28063
- Jefferson Davis 28065
- Kemper 28069
- Lafayette 28071
- Lauderdale 28075
- Lawrence 28077
- Leake 28079
- Madison 28089
- Marion 28091
- Marshall 28093
- Pearl River 28109
- Perry 28111
- Pike 28113
- Pontotoc 28115
- Rankin 28121
- Scott 28123
- Simpson 28127
- Union 28145
- Walthall 28147
- Washington 28151
- Yazoo 28163
Missouri view state ↗ 1 I ▾
New Mexico view state ↗ 2 I ▾
North Carolina view state ↗ 8 I ▾
Oklahoma view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 2 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Texas view state ↗ 33 I ▾
- Anderson 48001
- Bastrop 48021
- Bell 48027
- Bexar 48029
- Blanco 48031
- Brazoria 48039
- Brazos 48041
- Cameron 48061
- Cass 48067
- Chambers 48071
- Denton 48121
- Fort Bend 48157
- Galveston 48167
- Gonzales 48177
- Grayson 48181
- Harris 48201
- Hidalgo 48215
- Hudspeth 48229
- Jefferson 48245
- Kendall 48259
- Kleberg 48273
- Leon 48289
- Madison 48313
- Marion 48315
- McLennan 48309
- Nueces 48355
- Presidio 48377
- Robertson 48395
- Rusk 48401
- Sabine 48403
- San Patricio 48409
- Travis 48453
- Washington 48477
Virginia view state ↗ 21 I ▾
- Accomack 51001
- Arlington 51013
- Dinwiddie 51053
- Fairfax 51059
- Fauquier 51061
- Frederick 51069
- Gloucester 51073
- Henrico 51087
- James City 51095
- King and Queen 51097
- King George 51099
- Lancaster 51103
- Mathews 51115
- Northampton 51131
- Page 51139
- Prince George 51149
- Roanoke 51161
- Southampton 51175
- Surry 51181
- Westmoreland 51193
- York 51199
West Virginia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/RUPU3 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/2888978 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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