Rumex acetosella
Family : Polygonaceae
Sheep's Sorrel
14/119 : Native
Usually associated with railway ballast but perhaps also introduced from garden centres. The northern-most records may be of native plants growing on the peaty Carr soils.

J F Robinson 1902: "... in Holderness near Swine."

Herbarium material: HLU : Cottingham 1954 {A K Wilson}. HLL : Cottingham 1932 {A K Wilson}.

R Middleton 2000

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