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CURLED DOCK (Eumcx crispus L.) 



This weed is a smooth perennial from three to four feet high, 

 leaves with strongly wavy and curled margins, lanceolate and 

 acute. In the lower leaves the bases somewhat truncate or in- 

 clined to be heart shaped. The flowers are collected in dense 



Curled Dock (Ramex crispus) in clover meadows and along roadsides. A 

 common European weed. (U. S. Dept. of Agr.) 



whorls, extended or prolonged into racemes, entirely leafless 

 above, but below with small leaves. The flower consists of six 

 sepals, the outer herbaceous, leaflike, the three inner larger and 

 somewhat curled, and after flowering forming the valves of the 

 fruit. These surround the three angled fruit (achene) all the 

 valves bearing a grain. 



