Botanical Description: Yellow dock is a perennial herbaceous plant with large green leaves 15-35 centimeters long, with a lancelike appearance and a curly border on the edge. The stems are striped ...

Because each plant can produce more than 60,000 seeds each year, curly/yellow dock can become invasive when not monitored. In several states yellow dock is listed as a noxious weed.

Curly dock is remarkably adaptive. It can thrive in disturbed environments, roadsides, on mud in tidal estuaries, meadows, forest edges and shorelines. It hybridizes with other Rumex, both here and in ...

Nicole Zempel forages for curly dock and uses its greens, seeds and roots in a variety of dishes. Prairie Sportsman is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone ...