sorrel

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One flank is covered with tranquil forests and fields where typical local crops like spinach, sorrel and chives grow.

From Barron's • Nov. 26, 2025

"Stinging nettles are a come again plant. Cow parsley, sorrel too. Strangely you can pick a lot of salads now," he says.

From BBC • Oct. 27, 2024

Penny, a 3-year-old sorrel mare with a white blaze, had been slobbering her feed and fighting her bit, signs of a likely toothache.

From New York Times • Apr. 20, 2023

Seventeenth-century cookbook author John Murrell recommended "egges with greene sawce", a sort of pesto made with sorrel leaves.

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2023

“I'll take this now to Bryn,” she said."Add a raspberry leaf or two to the soup. And some of that sorrel from the garden. It'll give flavor," she added.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry