Patience dock
Rumex patientia · Knotweed family
Plant portrait
Patience dock forms a clump of large elongated leaves.
Harvested part
The leaves of this vegetable plant; this portrait gives no consumption recommendation.
What to watch for
Watch new leaves at the base and any later flower stalk.
Growth stages of the patience dock
Plotilo illustrates the patience dock in 5 stages in 3D: seed, small sprout, young plant, growing and harvest. The models show typical shapes; they do not predict how long growth takes.
- Seed
Starting from a seed. It is shown on the surface to make it visible in this illustration.
- Small sprout
A short first stem and its first small leaves emerge.
- Young plant
The young plant carries more leaves and starts to take its own shape.
- Growing
Leaves and stems develop. Their shape depends on the species.
- Harvest
An illustration of the harvested part. Roots are made visible for clarity; this image does not confirm actual maturity.
Same botanical family
Same botanical family as the patience dock (the knotweed family): the rhubarb. Gardeners usually avoid growing the same family in the same spot several years in a row: that is the idea behind crop rotation.