
Western Dock
Folk medicine says know this plant - rubbing a dock leaf on a nettle sting will make it stop stinging. The jury seems to be out about whether or not this is only placebo effect or if rubbing *any* leaf on your sting will work because it's the rubbing and not the dock, but hey - speaking as one who recently knelt in a nettle getting a photo, I'd be willing to give it a try!

Erect. Stem single, stout, often tinted red, unbranched below inflorescence. Basal leaves numerous, leathery, heart- to lance-shaped, with heart-shaped or square base, edge more or less curled; smaller leaves along stem from base into bottom of inflorescence. Flowers pink or green held in dense clusters on upper, branched stems.