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Indigenous Plants & Native Uses in the Northeast
COMMON WOOD SORREL COMMON WOOD SORREL
(Oxalis species)
COMMON WOOD SORREL

COMMON WOOD SORREL

Food: The distinctive shamrock-shaped, three-lobed leaves are edible, and though they may have a sour taste, they make a great trail-side nibble.

Medicine: The leaves are chewed for nausea, and to relieve mouth sores and sore throats, and a poultice of fresh leaves for cancers and old sores. Leaf teas are brewed for fevers, urinary infections and scurvy.

Note: Large doses may cause oxalate poisoning.

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