sheep's sorrel

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Noun1.sheep's sorrel - small plant having pleasantly acid-tasting arrow-shaped leavessheep's sorrel - small plant having pleasantly acid-tasting arrow-shaped leaves; common in dry places
Rumex acetosella, sheep sorrel
sour grass, dock, sorrel - any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine
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Grazing allows plants like catsear, dandelion, hawkbits, sheep's sorrel and common sorrel, which are all important food for twites, to grow long enough to produce seeds.
TWITES FIGHT TO RETAIN THEIR NATURAL HABITATS
Plantlife abounds - sheep's sorrel, cloudberry, cottongrass, and in the valleys, spruce and pine.
Saddleworth Moor: A place of mystery, tragedy and peace; the m.e.n. traces the history of a landscape now ravaged by fire
Seedlings of western gorse too, and grassier swards of fescues and hair-grasses, a scattering of sheep's sorrel and heath bedstraw.
That's why I am here with my lighter, fighting fire with fire; Arson is a scourge of the upland environment as blazes in the Brecon Beacons showed last month. But sometimes, says John Harold of North Wales Moth Group, you can fight fire with fire...
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