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

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

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2023

Nobody wants to disturb the rows of ceviche on fresh sorrel leaves or mounds of honeycomb toffee on a long, terraced stand.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2023

The grass was thick with clots of sorrel and thistles that pricked his feet, through the sandals.

From "I'm the King of the Castle" by Susan Hill