Alice Springs Flora •
Alice Springs FloraAlice Springs Flora Index Acacia ligulata Annual Yellowtop Apple Bush Bougainvillea Burdekin Plum Carob Tree (Ceratonia siliqa) Cattle Bush Desert Cotton (Aerva javanica) Desert Oak Eremophila Wildberry Feijoa sellowiana Flannel Cudweed Fork-leaf Corkwood Ghost Gum Golden Everlasting Kurrajong Lemon-flowered Gum MacDonnell’s Desert Fuchsia Native Bluebell Native Tomato Needlewood Olive Tree Perennial Yellow Top Rat’s Tail River Red Gum Inland River Red Gum Rosy Dock Round-leaved Mallee Scurvy Grass Silky Eremophila Stemodia viscosa Striped Mintbush Sturt’s Desert Pea Sturt’s Desert Rose Tangled Leschenaultia Tar Vine Weeping Bottlebrush White Cedar Yellow Billybutton Yellow-keeled Swainsona Yellow Oleander
The Rosy Dock (Rumex vesicarius) is also commonly known as Ruby dock, Native Hops and Wild Hops. They can be seen growing around Alice Springs, sometimes along the dry riverbeds and up on the range.
Classified as a weed in Australia, the Rosy Dock was though to have been introduced into Australia along with the camels, being used for feed or accidentally in saddles or packing. It has now become naturalised in many parts of inland Australia, particularly in the semi-arid and arid regions of central Australia.
The Rosy Dock is a fleshy-leafed annual, that is often seen growing throughout the outback after good winter rains. They are also found growing along roadsides, disturbed areas, wasteland, gardens, creek beds, ridges and rocky outcrops.
The following Rosy Dock growing along the kerbside road on the west side suburb of Alice Springs.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Clade: Tracheophytes
- Clade: Angiosperms
- Clade: Eudicots
- Order: Caryophyllales
- Family: Polygonaceae
- Genus: Rumex
- Species: Rumex vesicarius
- Synonyms:
- Acetosa vesicaria (L.) Á.Löve
- Lapathum vesicarium (L.) Moench
- Rumex americanus Campd.
- Rumex bolosii Stübing, Peris & Romo
- Rumex clementii Domin
Footnote & References
- Weeds of Central Australia, a field guide, Sunil Dhanji, Greening Australia, ISBN 978-1-875345-83-0, Acetosa vesicaria, Ruby Dock p 29
Alice Springs FloraAlice Springs Flora Index Acacia ligulata Annual Yellowtop Apple Bush Bougainvillea Burdekin Plum Carob Tree (Ceratonia siliqa) Cattle Bush Desert Cotton (Aerva javanica) Desert Oak Eremophila Wildberry Feijoa sellowiana Flannel Cudweed Fork-leaf Corkwood Ghost Gum Golden Everlasting Kurrajong Lemon-flowered Gum MacDonnell’s Desert Fuchsia Native Bluebell Native Tomato Needlewood Olive Tree Perennial Yellow Top Rat’s Tail River Red Gum Inland River Red Gum Rosy Dock Round-leaved Mallee Scurvy Grass Silky Eremophila Stemodia viscosa Striped Mintbush Sturt’s Desert Pea Sturt’s Desert Rose Tangled Leschenaultia Tar Vine Weeping Bottlebrush White Cedar Yellow Billybutton Yellow-keeled Swainsona Yellow Oleander
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