Dock family : POLYGONACEAE (CARYOPHYLLIDAE) in Australia

Flower Families

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) & Christine Ashe

Plant Classes

Acetosa sagittata Turkey Rhubarb Sydney, November 2006	Antigonon leptopus Coral Vine Sydney, November 2006	Homalocladium platycladum Tapeworm Plant Wyee, November 2007	Muehlenbeckia adpressa Climbing Lignum Tibooburra, NSW Photo: courtesy of Laura Levens,
Muehlenbeckia complexa Wire Vine Manly, December 2008	Muehlenbeckia cunninghamii Lignum Flinders Ranges, May 2018 Photo: courtesy of Peter Koch	Persicaria decipiens Slender Knotweed Wyee, March 2007	Persicaria maculosa Redshank Sydney, December 2006
Polygonum capitatum Pink Knotweed Sydney, August 2006	Rheum rhabarbarum Rhubarb Sydney, June 2007	Rumex brownii Swamp Dock Wyee, March 2008	Rumex conglomeratus Clustered Dock Wyee, November 2007

Rumex crispus Dock Gympie, October 2006

Caterpillars of some Australian Butterflies and Moths favour species in POLYGONACEAE for their foodplant, including:

Hypolimnas bolina	Pyropteron doryliformis	Hippotion celerio	Hippotion johanna	Hippotion scrofa	Opogona omoscopa
Ostrinia furnacalis	Acyphas semiochrea	Merophyas divulsana	Achaea janata	Aloa marginata	Apina callisto

Neumichtis saliaris

Zonoplusia ochreata

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

(updated 4 January 2013, 4 January 2024)