Dock, dockweed, dock weed. Common weed but has its own beauty. These photos were taken on a roadside verge near Roxburgh, Central Otago, New Zealand on 23 January 2021. The first two photos show the nursery web of a nursery web spider. The last photo is another dock plant altogether.
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Text and photos by Liz; Exploring Colour (2021)
keywords: seedhead, seeds
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That is quite some nursery – must be lots of babies in there. Here it’s said that if you have nettles, you’ll have docks too – well, we have plenty of nettles but the docks are somehow missing…
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Perhaps too dry for docks where you are?
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I think you’re probably right – used to see plenty of docks in Scotland, where it’s much wetter.
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Very interesting shots. Really nice with the web.
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Thanks Ted!
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There’s an introduced variety here that looks like this one: Rumex crispus. Apparently it thrives throughout the US, so the weeds in Steve’s garden may be the same as the roadside plants that I see here in Texas.
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Yes, that’s the one in our garden.
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I found a weed page with pics, showing 3 kinds of dock in NZ: obtusifolius (probably what I saw), crispus and pulcher. At: http://agpest.co.nz/?pesttypes=dock
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‘Obtusifolius’ made me laugh. I’ve never met an obtuse plant before!
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That’s an impressive crop of seeds, a very appealing russet color.
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Amazingly they can look nice – at the right stage and in the right light!
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What’s up, Dock? 🙂 One of our “weeds” that shows up in the yard every year.
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Hahaha! 🙂
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That’s lovely
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Cool!
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