How To Identify Wood Sorrel. When harvesting wood sorrel, gently strip the upper leaves, immature, green seedpods and flowers off the stems. The stems can be green to purple and branching form the base are alternating leaves that have long petioles.
Wood sorrel looks a lot like red and white clover, and often you’ll first look at it and think you might just find a lucky 4 leaf clover. the flowers of yellow wood sorrel are bright yellow, measure approximately 1/2 of an inch, and are made up of five petals. How to identify wood sorrel:
When harvesting wood sorrel, gently strip the upper leaves, immature, green seedpods and flowers off the stems.
If they’re tough to tell apart, rest assured that they’re both edible. Some species of clover (trifolium) from the pea family are also known as shamrocks. Some other species of wood sorrel have darker purple leaves and pink or violet flowers. Wood sorrel isn't a shamrock, as a shamrock is a type of clover (latin genus: