Description. Cooking with sorrel herb plants enhances a dish, lifting it to new heights. It is a somewhat delicate-appearing, low-growing, herbaceous plant in the family Oxalidaceae. The plant has also been used for dyeing. It is often called yellow wood sorrel or sleeping beauty, specie that is fragile and herbaceous. The plant is used in the treatment of influenza, fever, urinary tract infections, enteritis, diarrhea, traumatic injuries, sprains and poisonous snake bites. Oxalis: Species: O. corniculata. There are many different members of the Oxalis family and several of them are called Wood Sorrel. Sweetened wood sorrel tea is said to taste something like lemonade, and some people use it in beer-making. Oxalis, another common name for this plant, literally means "sour" and is named as such due to its oxalic acid content. Sorrel is an herb that is commonly used throughout the world but has failed to pique the interest of most Americans, most likely because they don’t know how to use sorrel.
The wood sorrel is a member of the Oxalis family of plants and so different to the clover. Wood-sorrel has distinctive trefoil leaves - at night, the three, heart-shaped lobes are folded back into a tent, while during the day, they flatten out. Oxalis corniculata, the creeping woodsorrel, also called procumbent yellow sorrel or sleeping beauty, resembles the common yellow woodsorrel, Oxalis stricta. Sorrel Recipes: 50 Things To Do With Fresh Sorrel Garden sorrel ( Rumex acetosa ) is commonly cultivated in French vegetable patches, and the season is just beginning. It is a sturdy, easy-to-grow leafy plant that comes back year after year, and belongs to the same botanical family as rhubarb and buckwheat, which is always fun to know. The plant is small creeper which grows from the nodes and has been administer for various edible and medicinal uses. All green leaved varieties are edible. L. Purple leaved variety. Wood Sorrel Herb Oxalis violacea Wood Sorrel Herbal and Edible Use. Wood sorrel looks similar to clover and tends to get misidentified as clover.
The whole flowering plant is used to make medicine. Traditional uses and benefits of Creeping Wood Sorrel. Wood sorrel, or oxalis, is a medium-sized wild edible weed that thrives in most areas across Canada and the U.S. This includes Pink-sorrel and similar species with pink flowers and larger leaves, as well as yellow flowered species that are fairly common in flower beds.
As with wood sorrel, though, I find bigger, tenderer leaves where the plants also get a little shade. The leaves, flowers, fruits and bulbs of Wood Sorrel are edible and used by herbalists. Medicinal Uses Wood sorrel leaves are also recommended as a medicinal herb . Common Wood Sorrel (Oxalis acetosella) is often listed as being toxic in wild flower identification books, but it is recommended by many foragers. Whole plant is anthelmintic, anti-phlogistic, astringent, depurative, diuretic, emenagogue, febrifuge, lithontripic, stomachic and styptic. The white flowers have five petals and tiny purple veins, they also close as the light fades, reopening in the dappled sun.
There are a number of sorrel plant uses in the kitchen; the herb can be eaten fresh or cooked and has a bright, lemony tang. Other Uses.
Wood sorrel is small plant which is often found as weed all over the world. Within the genus Oxalis, there are several hundred species. There are some potential health and toxicity issues to be aware of (see below), but in small quantities it is quite a good edible wild plant with a refreshing/tangy flavour. Aug 18, 2017 - Explore cnmmartin0221's board "Wood Sorrel", followed by 271 people on Pinterest. Binomial name; Oxalis corniculata.