Rumex pulcher L.
An erect perennial, with spreading, divaricate branches, between 30 and 80 cm tall. Basal leaves in a kind of rosette, oblong, rarely fiddle-shaped (pandurate), up to 15 cm long; hairless; on petioles up to 15 cm long. The upper leaves lanceolate. Inflorescence with wide-spreading branches. Flowers in dense whorled clusters, forming lax lateral and terminal spike-like racemes. Perianth segments up to 2 mm long. Valves 4 to 7 mm long and 2.5 to 5 mm wide, broadly ovate-triangular to ovate, with marked reticulated veins, and with 4 to 10 marginal teeth. Tubercules at the base of the perianth segments unequal.
Local: Rare in Gibraltar. Found in southern areas from Windmill Hill Flats to Europa Point.
Global: Found in western and southern Europe, north Africa and south-west Asia.
Flowers from April, May, June to July (August).
Grows on stony ground, tracksides and disturbed ground.