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Rumex crispus
(redirected from Curled Dock)

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Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, you should not have either Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica) or giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum ) in your garden and, under the Weeds Act of 1959, there is a list of five invasive and noxious weeds that should not be allowed to grow, including the broad-leaved and curled docks (Rumex spp) and ragwort (Senecio jacobaea).
A practical illustrated guide to edible plants, fungi and lichens, seaweeds and shellfish, the latest edition contains 240 wild foods that even urbanites will be able to take advantage off, such as the abundant stinging nettle, curled dock and common mallow ( as happy growing on waste ground and roadsides as near the sea.
Last year council officers drafted new policies in a bid to stop the spread of weeds such as Japanese knotweed, giant hogweed, spear thistle, creeping thistle, field thistle, curled dock, broad-leaved dock and ragwort, which poisons grazing animals.
 
 
 
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