Seeding plants. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, Paynes Find, WA

Fruiting bodies and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, Photographer Murray Fagg, Paynes Find, WA

Common Name

Wild Hops, Bladder Dock, Rosy Dock, Pink Dock

Family

Polygonaceae

Notes

Introduced annual forb to 1m tall.  Leaves alternating up the stems, with sheathing stipules, 5-10cm long, 20-80mm wide, flat, glaucous, hairless, with a pointed tip.  Flowers tiny (less than 3mm across), in large oval groups at the tops of the stems.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 228

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Acetosa~vesicaria