Skip to main content
Yellow dock

Yellow dock

Yellow dock

Rumex crispus

herb☀️ sun-or-partial🪴 loam📏 medium🌡️ RHS H7

📋Quick Facts

Water

💧💧 Average watering

Hardiness

Zone 5-8

About

Taprooted dock species that breaks compacted soil and recycles nutrients.

Also known as: Rumex crispus, Yellow dock, Lengua de vaca / acedera amarilla, Língua-de-vaca / azeda-amarela, Gelber Ampfer

Pest Resilience

4/5 — Good resilience

Few pest issues; a tough and vigorous wildflower.

Visual Characteristics

Fruits

Yes

Harvest: Autumn / fall

🍳

Culinary

Culinary Use

Salads (young leaves), cooked greens, herbal tea, flour from seeds

The yellow dock year in your garden

Dispatching imaginary bots to check your garden out...
What to do now

How to Propagate

🌰Seed
Easy
🌱Root division
Moderate

This plant produces viable seeds for propagation

Hardiness Zones

H1a (tender)H7 (very hardy)
RHS H7

USDA 4–5 equivalent

Names in Other Languages(3)