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| Seeds of Broad-leaved Dock, Rumex obtusifolius. Nashenden Down Nature Reserve, 14 April 2012. |
These amazing seeds are among the many sights that can only be seen by looking closely, sometimes with a lens. They were on the dead flower-stems of a Dock plant, which showed this year's leaves at its base but had not yet put up this year's flowers. These are typical of the Broad-leaved Dock, with spiked edges and large warts. (The seeds are a good way to tell Docks apart.) The whole plant looked like this:
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| Broad-leaved Dock, Rumex obtusifolius. Nashenden Down Nature Reserve, 14 April 2012. |
As its name suggests, the leaves are broad, and they have heart-shaped (cordate) bases, another feature of this particular Dock.
The dock photos are great. We have that in empty lots all over N America, but I never looked closely enough to see it properly. No wonder it sticks to socks and even to blue jeans so tenaciously.
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