sheep sorrel

sheep's sorrel

n (Plants) a polygonaceous plant, Rumex acetosella, of the N hemisphere, having slightly bitter-tasting leaves and small reddish flowers

Sheep sorrel

Wood sorrel (one variety of oxalis). Sometimes chewed for its taste or in salads.

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Noun

sheep sorrel - small plant having pleasantly acid-tasting arrow-shaped leaves; common in dry placesRumex acetosella, sheep's sorrelsour grass, dock, sorrel - any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine

sheep sorrel

sheep sorrel

A great instant snack food. Leaves shaped like knife/sword/ arrowhead with tall flowering stalks that sometimes resemble red grass with small reddish-colored flowers stuck close to the stalk, that sometimes branches at the top. Male flowers are yellow-green, female are red (lipstick). It has a strong tart, sour-apple or lemony flavor, quite a fun plant to eat. The entire plant is edible. Contains lots of soluble oxalates, but shouldn't be a concern to someone eating a diverse healthy diet. A great addition to any type of salad. Used for inflammation, diarrhea, menstrual bleeding. Has multiple cancerpreventing compounds and anti-mutagenics making it a popular anticancer plant. It’s one of the ingredients in the famous Essiac tea remedy.

Sheep Sorrel

(Rumex acetosella), a perennial herbaceous plant of the family Polygonaceae. The leaves are alternate. The lower leaves are petiolate and speary, and the upper ones are sessile and lanceolate. The small unisexual flowers are in panicles. (The plant is dioecious.) The fruit is a shiny three-angled nutlet.

Sheep sorrel is distributed in the temperate and subtropical zones of the northern hemisphere. It is almost ubiquitous in the USSR. A sucker-forming weed, the plant occurs mainly in plantings of thinned perennial herbs. It often forms thickets on fallow fields, wastelands, and dry meadows, as well as along roads and in dumps. Sheep sorrel serves as forage for sheep and pigs. When eaten in large quantity, however, it causes severe poisoning owing to the presence of a large quantity of calcium oxalate in all its parts. The plant is especially toxic during the period of seed maturation.

REFERENCE

Vil’ner, A. M. Kormovye otravleniia, 5th ed. Leningrad, 1974.

sheep sorrel

Herbal medicine
A European weed that contains oxalic acid. It is astringent and used topically for pruritic (itchy) rashes (e.g., caused by poison ivy and abrasions) and internally for constipation, diarrhoea, upper GI ulcers and hypermenorrhoea.

Toxicity
Nausea, vomiting, headache; excessive ingestion may cause renal failure due to its high content of oxalic acid.

sheep sorrel

sheep sorrel

sheep's sorrel

Sheep sorrel

sheep sorrel

sheep sorrel

Sheep Sorrel

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Synonyms for sheep sorrel

noun small plant having pleasantly acid-tasting arrow-shaped leaves

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