Weed Herbarium

Gang palong

Common Name: Golden dock
Scientific Name: Rumex maritimus L.
Family Name: Polygonaceae
Type: Broad Leaf

Identification Notes

EPPO Code

RUMMA

Life Cycle

Annual / Biennial

Morphology

Stem: Erect, deeply grooved, angled. Leaves: Petioled, base always narrowed into the petiole, lanceolate. Inflorescence: Cymes with yellow flowers, whorls of flowers lax or dense, many or few flowered.

Growing season

Rabi

Germination period

October - January

Flowering period

November - March

Propagation

By Seed

Habitat

Found in the fields of mustard, wheat, pulses, chilli, and winter vegetables. Also found in the roadsides, homesteads, fallow lands and levee of crop fields.

Weed potential

Control measure

Recommended herbicide

Distribution

The native range of this species is Subarctic & Temp. Eurasia. It is an annual or biennial and grows primarily in the temperate biome

Medicinal properties

Leaf and root: laxative; externally applied to burns. Seed: aphrodisiac

Department of Agronomy

Bangladesh Agricultural University