Sorrel is grown for its leaves which are used in soups, sauces and salads.
Names
Scientific
Rumex acetosa
English
Common sorrel
Garden sorrel
Sorrel
Dutch
Veldzuring
Zurkel
Spanish
Acedera
Acedera común
French
Grande oseille
Oseille commune
German
Großer Sauerampfer
Sauerampfer
Wiesen-Sauerampfer
Italian
Acetosa
Erba brusca
Taxonomy
Order
Caryophyllales
Family
Polygonaceae
Genus
Rumex
Species
Rumex acetosa (Sorrel)
Proverbs and Quotes
- He nibbled a bit of sorrel, and he drank from a small mountain-stream that crossed the path, and he ate three wild strawberries that he found on its bank, but it was not much good. (The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again. By: J. R. R. Tolkien)
Crop categories
Herbs
Leaf vegetables
Medicinal plants
Mediterranean crops
Minor crops
Subtropical crops
Temperate crops
Vegetables