A sorrel which is common on acid soils in north temperate regions.
Rumex acetosella, family Polygonaceae
Example sentencesExamples
Essiac herbal formula consists of equal parts burdock, slippery elm, sheep sorrel, and turkey rhubarb.
But here every step brings a discovery: that sheep sorrel leaves taste lemony and that plantain leaves can be chewed and used to treat a bee sting.
A keen botanical eye might also have picked out pepperweed, yellow woodsorrel, soapwort, horseweed, ironweed, black nightshade, sheep sorrel, curly dock, and small eyebane.
The original formula contained four herbs: burdock root, Indian rhubarb root, sheep sorrel and slippery elm.