Sorrel (disambiguation)

Sorrel is a perennial herb cultivated as a leaf vegetable, particularly:

• Rumex acetosa, garden sorrel, common sorrel
• Rumex scutatus, French sorrel

Sorrel may also refer to:

Plants

• Bilimbi or tree sorrel (Averrhoa bilimbi)
• Oxalidaceae, family of plants known as the woodsorrel family
• Oxalis, largest genus in the Oxalidaceae, known as woodsorrels, particularly:
  • Oxalis enneaphylla, scurvy-grass sorrel
• Oxyria digyna, known as 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 acetosa, garden sorrel, common sorrel
  • Rumex acetosella, sheep's sorrel
  • Rumex scutatus, French sorrel
• Sourwood or sorrel tree (Oxydendrum arboreum)

Horses

• Sorrel (horse), an alternative term for a reddish-colored horse, more often known as "chestnut"
• Old Sorrel (foaled 1915), America Quarter Horse stallion

People

• Hetty Sorrel, fictional character in George Eliot's novel Adam Bede
• Moxley Sorrel (1838–1901), American Civil War soldier

Places

• Mountsorrel, Leicestershire, England
• Mount Sorrel, Wiltshire, England
• Sorrel, Louisiana, United States, a census-designated place

Other

• Heliophorus sena or sorrel sapphire, Indian butterfly
• USS Sorrel (1864), American navy ship
• Sorrel Weed House or Francis Sorrel House, historic house in Savannah, Georgia, United States
• Sorrel, a hibiscus tea popular in Jamaica

See also

• Rosalie Sorrels (born 1933), American singer-songwriter
• Sorel (disambiguation)
• Sorell (disambiguation)
• Sorrell (disambiguation)