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{{Short description|Genus of plants}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Rumex X patientia Sturm55.jpg |image_caption = '''Patience dock'''<br/>(''[[Rumex patientia]]'') |taxon = Rumex |authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|L.]] [[Species Plantarum|1753]] |type_species = ''[[Rumex patientia]]'' |type_species_authority = L. |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = [[#Species|About 200, see text]] |synonyms_ref = <ref name=POWO_328551-2/> |synonyms = {{Genus list |Acetosa|Tourn. ex Mill. |Acetosella|(Meisn.) Fourr. |Analiton|Raf. |Atecosa|Raf. |Bucephalophora|Pau |Centopodium|Burch. |Emex|Neck. ex Campd. |Eutralia|Raf. |Lapathon|Raf. |Lapathum|Mill. |Menophyla|Raf. |Nemolapathum|Ehrh. |Oxylapathon|St.-Lag. |Rhodoptera|Raf. |Steinmannia|Opiz |Tomaris|Raf. |Vibo|Medik. |Vibones|Raf. }} |}} The '''docks''' and '''sorrels''', [[genus]] '''''Rumex''''', are a genus of about 200 species of [[Annual plant|annual]], [[Biennial plant|biennial]], and [[perennial plant|perennial]] [[herb]]s in the [[buckwheat]] family, [[Polygonaceae]]. Members of this genus are very common perennial herbs with a native almost worldwide distribution, and introduced species growing in the few places where the genus is not native.<ref name=POWO_328551-2/> Some are nuisance [[weed]]s (and are sometimes called dockweed or dock weed), but some are grown for their edible [[Leaf|leaves]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Martin |first=Alexander C. |title=Weeds |year=1972 |publisher=Golden Press |location=New York |isbn=0-307-24353-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/weeds00mart/page/38 38] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/weeds00mart/page/38}}</ref> ''Rumex'' species are used as food plants by the [[larva]]e of a number of [[Lepidoptera]] species, and are the only host plants of ''[[Lycaena dispar]]'' and ''[[Lycaena rubidus]].''<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Warren|first1=Andres|last2=Harrera|first2=Alfonso|date=15 March 2005|title=Butterflies of Oregon Their Taxonomy, Distribution, and Biology|url=https://dspace.library.colostate.edu/bitstream/handle/10217/81121/BSPMGILL_LepidopteraofNorthAmerica6.pdf?sequence=1|journal=Lepidoptera of North America|volume=6}}</ref>
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