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But not long ago, their picky palates were nibbling at the farm’s productivity. They simply would not eat a bitter weed called Rumex crispus, or curly dock, that was spreading through his pastures – ...

Curly dock is remarkably adaptive. It can thrive in disturbed environments, roadsides, on mud in tidal estuaries, meadows, forest edges and shorelines. It hybridizes with other Rumex, both here and in ...