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Rumex acetosella

Common Sheep Sorrel

Introduced to Hawaiʻi

Photo: (c) Antti Henttonen, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Antti Henttonen (iNaturalist)

53

Bishop specimens

0

Type specimens

1895

First collected

2009

Last collected

No recent record

Last seen alive in Hawaiʻi

In the Library

Bishop Museum publications whose pages name Rumex acetosella, most mentions first.

  1. 2025

  2. 2019

    Hawaiian naturalized vascular plants checklist (February 2019 update)

    Imada, C. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  3. 2003

    Hawaii's biodiversity: a detailed assessment of the numbers of species in the Hawaiian Islands

    Eldredge, L.G. & N.L. Evenhuis · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  4. 2003

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2001-2002. Part II: Notes

    N.L. Evenhuis & Eldredge, L.G., eds. · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  5. 2001

    Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2001: -02: Notes

    Evenhuis, N.L. & Eldredge, L.G. (eds) · Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

  6. 1998

    Notes on two alien taxa of Rumex L. (Polygonaceae) naturalized in the Hawaiian Islands

    Mosyakin, S.L. & W.L. Wagner · Contribution to the Hawaii Biological Survey · 1 page

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Where Bishop collected it

5 mapped specimens. Localities of endangered species are shown approximately.

Two centuries of collecting

1890s2000s

The oldest Bishop specimen was collected in 1895 by Heller, A.A. (Kauaʻi).

From the collection

Rumex acetosella, 595518Rumex acetosella, 783274Rumex acetosella, 428956Rumex acetosella, 63751Rumex acetosella, 63755Rumex acetosella, 416828Rumex acetosella, 63764Rumex acetosella, 63759Rumex acetosella, 490603Rumex acetosella, 610520Rumex acetosella, 451731Rumex acetosella, 610431