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Common Sorrel🌿
Rumex acetosa
スイバ
A perennial herb found in grasslands and along roadsides. The leaves have a strong sour taste, which gives the plant its Japanese name 'suiba' (sour leaf). Dioecious, with small reddish flowers borne in spike-like panicles.
Identification Points
- ✓Leaves have a strong sour taste when chewed (contains oxalic acid)
- ✓Leaf bases are sagittate (arrow-shaped)
- ✓Reddish spike-like inflorescences in spring to early summer
- ✓Dioecious (separate male and female plants)
Habitat
Grasslands, roadsides, embankments, meadows
Season
May to July (flowers)
3D Specimen Model
Kyushu University, Shikano Lab (CC0)
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Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf type
Simple
Venation
Pinnate
Leaf margin
Entire
Leaf shape
Ovate
Growth form
Herb
Petal fusion
No petals
Habitat
Roadside
Leaf dissection
Undivided
Flower symmetry
Actinomorphic
Ovary position
Superior
Phylogenetic Positionタデ科 →
Phylogenetic Position
Angiosperms > Eudicots > Caryophyllales > Polygonaceae
Divergence Era
Late Cretaceous to Paleogene
Sources & References
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