Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Fiddle Dock, Rumex pulcher, Copóg chumtha
Photographs: Co. Wexford

Fiddle Dock
Rumex pulcher
Copóg chumtha
Family: Polygonaceae

Flowering June - July. Biennial or short-lived perennial. Introduced

Distant whorls of flowers with warted inner tepals, the tepal edges with 3 or 4 teeth. Distinctive 'fiddle-shaped' leaves on branches that spread nearly at right-angles from the main stem. Straggling stems, to 40cm.

Usually coastal on dry grassland and waste ground. Previously a very rare casual in Ireland but has become naturalised in some sites.

Fiddle Dock, Rumex pulcher, Copóg chumtha

Fiddle Dock, Rumex pulcher, Copóg chumtha
Fiddle Dock, Rumex pulcher, Copóg chumtha

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