Rumex conglomerates, Murray

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 87

38. R. conglomerates Murray , Prodr. Stirp. Gotting. 52 (1770).

Perennial 3O-8O(-12O) cm. Panicle lax; whorls all remote and usually subtended by a leaf. Pedicels about as long as the valves, jointed near the middle. Valves 2-5-3-2 x 1-1-7 mm, oblong-ovate, entire, all tuberculate; tubercles often covering nearly the whole valve. 2« = 20. Riversides and waste places. Europe, from Scotland, S. Sweden and C. Russia southwards. All except Fa Is Rs (N, B, E) Sb, but only as an alien in Az Fe No.

Subsp. nevadensis H. Lindb. , Act. Soc. Sei. Fenn. nov. ser. B, 1 (2): 41 (1932), from S. Spain (Sierra Nevada), is said to be like the typical plant but with thicker, longer, narrower leaves, larger flowers, longer and flatter tubercles and whorls of branches without subtending leaves.