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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! Geotagged,Rumex occidentalis,Spring,United States,Western Dock Click/tap to enlarge Species introCountry intro

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!

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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.

Similar species: Pinks, Cactuses, And Allies
Species identified by morpheme
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Uploaded May 29, 2015. Captured May 28, 2015 12:47 in Nisqually Estuary Taril, DuPont, WA 98327, USA.
  • X-E1
  • f/1.0
  • 1/500s
  • ISO200
  • 50mm