![]() Flowers are followed by reddish-brown fruit. Flowers emerge green, but mature to reddish brown. ![]() In early summer, tiny star-shaped flowers appear in panicles atop reddish-tinged stems growing to 30” tall. It is also sometimes grown in vegetable/herb gardens for harvest of its edible young leaves. It is primarily grown as a decorative foliage accent to showcase its oblong to lance-shaped medium green leaves (to 6” long) which are prominently veined with contrasting red to purple. It is native to ditches, clearings and forests in Europe and Asia, but has over time escaped gardens and naturalized in certain areas of the U. Rumex sanguineus, known by a number of different common names including bloody dock or red-veined dock, is a tap-rooted rosette-forming perennial of the buckwheat family that typically grows in a rounded foliage clump to 18” tall and as wide.
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