POLYGONACEAE (BUCKWHEAT FAMILY) 95 
Time of bloom: May to July. 
Seed-time: June to August. 
Range: Eastern Canada to Vermont, New York, and Pennsylvania; 
locally south and west. 
Habitat: Gardens, fields, roadsides, and waste places. 
Usually an escape from gardens 
where it has been cultivated for 
“greens,” though there are much 
better pot herbs which are not so 
unruly. Stems eighteen inches to 
three feet tall, erect, simple, smooth, 
slightly grooved. Leaves two to 
five inches long, arrow-shaped, the 
auricles at base not spreading; basal 
leaves on long and slender petioles, 
those on the stems nearly sessile. 
Flowers dicecious, the racemes erect, 
and crowded, or interrupted. Calyx 
green, the valves winged in fruit, 
rounded at apex, heart-shaped at base. 
Achenes dark reddish brown, pointed, 
three-angled, smooth and _ shining. 
(Fig. 55.) 
Means of control 
Frequent and close cutting through- 
out the growing season will prevent 
seed development and starve the 
rootstocks. Small areas should be 
grubbed out and destroyed. 
FIELD SORREL 
Riumex Acetosélla, L. 
Other English names: Horse Sorrel, Sheep Sorrel, Redtop Sorrel, 
Sourweed, Sourgrass. 
Introduced. Perennial. Propagates by seeds and by rootstocks. + 
Time of bloom: May to September. 
Seed-time: June to November. | 
Range: All parts of North America except the extreme North. 
Habitat: Rather dry, sandy soil; fields, meadows, pastures, road- 
sides, and waste places. 
Fie. 55.— Tall Sorrel 
(Rumex Acetosa). x 4. 
