curly dock stalks with seeds detail

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Rumex crispus, the curly dock, curled dock or yellow dock, is a perennial flowering plant in the family Polygonaceae, native to Europe and Western Asia.Curly dock grows in a wide variety of habitats, including disturbed soil, waste areas, roadsides, fields meadows, shorelines, and forest edges. The plant produces an inflorescence or flower stalk . It has smooth leaves shooting off from a large basal rosette, with distinctive waved or curled edges these can grow to 14â24 centimetres. On the stalk, flowers and seeds are produced in clusters on branched stems, with the largest cluster being found at the apex. The seeds are shiny, brown and encased in the calyx of the flower that produced them. This casing enables the seeds to float on water and get caught in wool and animal fur, and this helps the seeds spread to new locations.