common sorrel

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common sorrel - large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces

greens, leafy vegetable, green - any of various leafy plants or their leaves and stems eaten as vegetables

Rumex acetosa, sour dock, garden sorrel - European sorrel with large slightly acidic sagittate leaves grown throughout north temperate zone for salad and spring greens

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Grazing allows plants like catsear, dandelion, hawkbits, sheep's sorrel and common sorrel, which are all important food for twites, to grow long enough to produce seeds.

TWITES FIGHT TO RETAIN THEIR NATURAL HABITATS

Other popular varieties include common sorrel, bird's-foot trefoil, borage and sainfoin.

Have a field day; It's easy to turn a lawn into meadow

While you'd normally find common sorrel (rumex acetosa) plants that are about 3in high at this time of year, we struggle to find any.