Sour dock

Plant 11.

Sour dock.

Here you see a photo of Sour dock.

I found this plant in the polder.

It was growing in the berm, next to other plants like cow parsley and the buttercup.

There it got enough sunlight, and the soil was humide.

Sour dock usually grows on sunny places.

It grows on humid woodlands, and sometimes also on open places in the forest. The areas where the sour dock grows, can look red because of this plant.

The plant can easily get 50 centimeters high, and some of them become even 100 centimeters.

Sour dock blooms in May, June and July.

When it blooms, it gets flowers. These flowers are a little bit green in the beginning,

and later on, they become dark red, a little bit like bordeaux.

The flowers become around 4 millimeters big.

The sour dock also has leaves. The leaves are green, and they have a smooth leave edge.

The plant loses all of it’s leaves and flowers in autumn, and in spring evereything blooms again.

The sour dock doesn’t have any fruits, and it isn’t used for medicines.