name: Dock

flavor_db_name_variants: dock

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Dock

id: 350

name_scientific: Rumex

description: The docks and sorrels, genus Rumex L., are a genus of about 200 species of annual, biennial and perennial herbs in the buckwheat family Polygonaceae. Members of this family are very common perennial herbs growing mainly in the northern hemisphere, but various species have been introduced almost everywhere. Some are nuisance weeds (and are sometimes called dockweed or dock weed), but some are grown for their edible leaves. Rumex species are used as food plants by the larvae of a number of Lepidoptera species.

itis_id: 20933

wikipedia_id: Rumex

picture_file_name: 355.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 134743

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:41:54.000Z

legacy_id: 382

food_group: Herbs and Spices

food_subgroup: Herbs

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:37.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:23.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 3618

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00350