It has several names — yellow dock, sour dock, garden patience, narrow leaf dock and curly dock. The entire plant is useful and all types of dock are edible. Rumex crispus (curly or yellow dock ...

Botanical Description: Yellow dock is a perennial herbaceous plant with large green leaves 15-35 centimeters long, with a lancelike appearance and a curly border on the edge. The stems are striped ...

So in the fall, you can forage for the curly dock greens and also the seed and also the yellow tap root. During the fall to early winter, depending on ground freezing can be dug and the root would ...