Wood Sorrel | Plant Information

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Plant Data

Flowering Months:

JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC

Order:

Oxalidales

Family:

Oxalidaceae (Wood Sorrel)

Also in this family:

Pink Sorrel, Spreading Yellow Sorrel

Type:

Flower

Life Cycle:

Annual or Perennial

Maximum Size:

10 centimetres tall

Habitats:

Grassland, hedgerows, mountains, swamps, woodland.

Flower:

White, 5 petals

White with lilac veins, 5 petals and long-stalked.

Fruit:

Roughly round, 5 sided, furrowed and pale green capsule.

Leaves:

Evergreen. Long-stalked, pale green leaves in a basal rosette. The leaves are divided into 3 leaflets, each leaflet being heart-shaped with a notch cut in the end. The leaves are occasionally purplish beneath.

Other Names:

Bird's Bread-and-Cheese, Bread-and-Cheese, Butter and Eggs, Candle-of-the-Woods, Common Wood Sorrel, Cuckoo Bread, Cuckoo Meat, Cuckoo Sorrel, Cuckooflower, Cuckoo's Bread-and-Cheese, Cups and Saucers, Fairy Bells, False Shamrock, Fox's Meat, French Sorrel, God Almighty's Bread-and-Cheese, Good Luck, Gowk Meat, Granny's Sour Grass, Green Sauce, Green Sob, Hallelujah, Hearts, King Finger, Lady's Clover, Laverocks, Little Gentle One, Marsh Clover, Salt Cellar, Shamrock, Sleeping Beauty, Sleeping Clover, Sleeping Molly, Sour Dab, Sour Shamrock, Sourgrass, Sow Trefoil, St Cecilia's Flower, St Patrick's Cross, Stabwort, Stickwort, Stubwort, Three-leaved Grass, White Sorrel, White Wood Sorrel, Whitsun Flower, Wild Shamrock, Wood Ash, Wood Sour, Wood Sower.

Frequency (UK):

Common