Bering Sea Dock

The name Rumex graminifolius was commonly misapplied to this species in both northwestern North America and northeastern Eurasia.

Plants perennial, glabrous, with thick, densely tufted underground stolons. Stems erect, rarely as-cending, several from base, branched in inflorescence, 5-15(-20) cm; shoots usually densely crowded, not elongated. Leaves: ocrea brownish or reddish brown, membranous; blade linear or spatulate-lanceolate, not hastate (without basal lobes), 1.5-5 × 0.1-0.3 cm, base narrowly cuneate (gradually narrowing into petiole), margins entire, flat or slightly convolute, apex obtuse or subacute. Inflorescences terminal, occupying more than distal 2 of stem, ± dense, usually interrupted at least near base, narrowly paniculate with branches directed upward. Pedicels 1-4 mm. Flowers (3-)4-7 in whorls; inner tepals distinctly enlarged, 1.6-2.3 × 1.8-2.5 mm (free wing 0.3-0.5 mm wide), base cuneate, apex obtuse or subacute. Achenes brown or reddish brown, 1-1.5 × 0.8-1.2 mm. 2n = 14.

Yukon; Alaska; ne Asia (ne Russian Far East).

Flowering summer.

Sandy and gravelly soil, shores, limestone outcrops; 0-300m.

Acetosella beringensis (Jurtzev & V. V. Petrovsky) Á. Löve & D. Löve

Rumex beringensis is a flowering plant species in the family Polygonaceae.