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
Wood sorrel, dog violet and celandine were already in flower beneath the twisted branches of mature oak and birch, thickly draped in mosses, ferns and epiphytic plants.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 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
The sorrel and docks brushed against his legs, and damped through his jeans, very quickly.
From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill
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