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Sorrel , Rumex acetosa, is a perennial herb cultivated as a leaf vegetable.

Contents

• Plants
• Characters
• People
• Places
• Other
• See also

Sorrel may also refer to:

Plants

• Averrhoa bilimbi or tree sorrel, a fruit-bearing tree
• Oxalidaceae, family of plants known as the woodsorrel family
• Oxalis , largest genus in the Oxalidaceae, known as woodsorrels, particularly:
  • Oxalis enneaphylla , scurvy-grass sorrel
  • Oxalis oregana , redwood sorrel
• Oxyria digyna , alpine sorrel or mountain sorrel
• Roselle (plant) (Hibiscus sabdariffa), known as Jamaican sorrel, and in the Caribbean simply as "sorrel"
• Rumex , genus of plants containing species known as sorrels, particularly:
  • Rumex acetosella , sheep's sorrel
  • Rumex scutatus , French sorrel
• Sourwood or sorrel tree (Oxydendrum arboreum), a tree native to North America

Characters

• Hetty Sorrel, a fictional character in George Eliot's novel Adam Bede
• Sorel Bliss, a character in Noël Coward’s 1924 play Hay Fever
• Sorrel, a character in the animated film Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You!

People

• Moxley Sorrel (1838–1901), American Civil War soldier
• Sorrel Carson (1920–2005), Irish actress, director, and teacher who formed the Academy of Live and Recorded Art in London
• Sorrel Hays (1941–2020), American pianist, composer, and artist

Places

• Sorell, Tasmania, Australia
• Sorrel, Louisiana, United States, a census-designated place

Other

• Sorrel (drink) or hibiscus tea, a herbal tea infusion popular in Jamaica
• Sorrel (horse), an alternative term for a reddish-colored horse, more often known as "chestnut"
  • Old Sorrel (foaled 1915), an America Quarter Horse stallion
• Heliophorus sena or sorrel sapphire, an Indian butterfly
• USS Sorrel (1864), an American navy ship

See also

• Sea sorrel (disambiguation)
• Rosalie Sorrels (1933-2017), American singer-songwriter
• Sorel (disambiguation)
• Sorell (disambiguation)
• Sorrell (disambiguation)

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