Sourgrass
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Sourgrass is a common name given to several plant species which have a sour taste. Most are in fact not grasses:
- Digitaria insularis, a true grass (PoaceaePoaceaeThe Poaceae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of flowering plants. Members of this family are commonly called grasses, although the term "grass" is also applied to plants that are not in the Poaceae lineage, including the rushes and sedges...
) - OxalisOxalisOxalis is by far the largest genus in the wood-sorrel family Oxalidaceae: of the approximately 900 known species in the Oxalidaceae, 800 belong here...
species (woodsorrels) of the OxalidaceaeOxalidaceaeThe Oxalidaceae, or wood sorrel family, are a small family of eight genera of herbaceous plants, shrubs and small trees, with the great majority of the 900 species in the genus Oxalis...
, namely:- Oxalis pes-capraeOxalis pes-capraeOxalis pes-caprae is a species of tristylous flowering plant in the wood sorrel family Oxalidaceae...
(Bermuda-buttercup) - Oxalis grandis (Large Yellow Woodsorrel)
- Oxalis montana (Mountain Woodsorrel)
- Oxalis strictaOxalis strictaOxalis stricta, called the common yellow woodsorrel , common yellow oxalis, upright yellow-sorrel, lemon clover, or more ambiguously and informally "sourgrass" or "pickle plant", is an herbaceous plant native to North America, parts of Eurasia, and has a rare introduction in Britain...
(Yellow WoodsorrelYellow woodsorrelYellow woodsorrel may refer to any member of the woodsorrel genus with yellow flowers , but especially:* Oxalis corniculata , a low-lying species...
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- Oxalis pes-caprae
- Rumex acetosellaRumex acetosellaRumex acetosella is a species of sorrel, also known as Acetosella vulgaris Fourr, bearing the common names sheep's sorrel, red sorrel, sour weed, and field sorrel. The plant and its subspecies are common perennial weeds. It has green arrowhead-shaped leaves and red-tinted deeply ridged stems, and...
(Sorrel) of the PolygonaceaePolygonaceaePolygonaceae is a family of flowering plants known informally as the "knotweed family" or "smartweed family"— "buckwheat family" in the United States. The name is based on the genus Polygonum and was first used by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu in 1789 in his book, Genera Plantarum. The name refers...