Illustrated is a leaf of belleville dock. It is a European and North American plant. It is really a sorrel.

Belleville Dock

Illustrated is a leaf of belleville dock. It is a European and North American plant. It is really a…

A female sorrel flower spike.

Sorrel flower

A female sorrel flower spike.

Fruit from a common sorrel plant.

Sorrel fruit

Fruit from a common sorrel plant.

"The common sorrel is a meadow plant, slender in habit, with halberd-shaped, juicy, acid flavored leaves, and bearing whorled spikes of greenish-red flowers in summer."—Finley, 1917

Sorrel

"The common sorrel is a meadow plant, slender in habit, with halberd-shaped, juicy, acid flavored leaves,…

"Oxalis confertissima. 1. calyx; 2. stamens; 3. pistil; 4. seed and its section of O. acetosella" (common wood sorrel). -Lindley, 1853

Sorrel

"Oxalis confertissima. 1. calyx; 2. stamens; 3. pistil; 4. seed and its section of O. acetosella" (common…

A female sorrel flower.

Female sorrel flower

A female sorrel flower.

A male sorrel flower.

Male sorrel flower

A male sorrel flower.