sheep sorrel

How to use sheep sorrel in a sentence

• The spade or plow that turns these under is sure to turn up some other variety, as chickweed, sheep-sorrel, or goose-foot.

  A Year in the Fields | John Burroughs

• sheep sorrel was most common, next to this yellow or bitter dock and green foxtail.

  Seeds of Michigan Weeds | W. J. (William James) Beal

• The property was picturesque to look at but its best herbage was sheep-sorrel.

  My Friends at Brook Farm | John Van Der Zee Sears

• Rumex acetosella (sheep sorrel), common by river and log-paths, as Chesuncook log-path.

  The Maine Woods | Henry David Thoreau

• Reddy resembles the common, but much-admired sheep sorrel, while I am like that tender little flower, the forget-me-not.

  Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School | Jessie Graham Flower