The delicate wood sorrel with its folding leaves takes advantage of the early spring when there is less shading from trees above. Its leaves can be eaten as salad.
My Culpeper's Complete Herbal and English Physician Enlarged (1814) claims among its qualities, the ability to .....
".... quench thirst, to strengthen a weak stomach, to procure an appetite, to stay vomiting, and very excellent in any contagious sickness or pestilential fevers."
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