Rumex hastatus

Botanical Name:

Rumex hastatus

Family Name:

Polygonaceae

Local Name:

Churki, churca

Urdu Name:

Khati buti

English name:

Curle sock

Part used:

Whole plant

Flowering:

May - June

Description:

Rumex hstatus is a bushy shrub with many ascending stems. Stems woody at base, leaves narrow and arrow shaped with a pair of narrow spreading basal lobes, and with numerous thin branches with terminal very slender clusters of distant whorls of tiny greenish- white flowers. Flowers very small, flower stalk lengthening in fruit. Leaves broadly triangular, stalked, fruit pinkish.

Habitat:

In Gilgit /Baltistan it is growing abundantly and most luxuriantly on the boundary lines of cultivated fields and streams.

Medicinal uses:

Root is laxative alternative, tonic, and anti rheumatic and can be used in skin disease.

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