Sheep's sorrel
Rumex acetosella L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 51 cm
- wide
- —
Polygonaceae
Also called Sheep sorrel, Common Sheep Sorrel, Field sorrel, Red (or sheep) sorrel, Red sorrel
Formerly Acetosa acetosella, Lapathum acetosella, Pauladolfia acetosella
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Temp. EurasiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 51 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- Red, greenRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Kleiner Sauerampfer, Kleiner Sauer-Ampfer
- French
- Petite oseille, petite oseille
- Dutch
- Schapenzuring, schapenzuring
- Spanish
- Lengua de pájaro, Sangre de toro
- root
- RUMACE, Puka qura, Lytse surk
- Czech
- šťovík menší
- Swedish
- bergsyra, bergssyra
- Hungarian
- Juhsóska
- Russian
- Щавель воробьиный, Щавелёк обыкновенный, Щавель кисленький
- Georgian
- კოკომჟავა
- Finnish
- Ahosuolaheinä, ahosuolaheinä
- Estonian
- Väike oblikas
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Rumex acetosella (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.