A wood sorrel bouquet makes a great edible gift for a friend who appreciates simple pleasures That sour, lemonish flavor is due in part to the presence of oxalic acid (which is where this genus's scientific name comes from) When you read about wood sorrel in the wild food literature, you'll often see very stark warnings about overconsumption of oxalic acid that might In many foraging books, Wood Sorrel accounts are brief, but experienced forager John Kallas allocated 14 pages of his book Edible Wild Plants (10) to this wild food and included numerous fullcolor photographs, handy preparation tips, and recipes for Wood Sorrel soup, sauce, and dessert topping Others, of course, you can easily recognize from a distance, like yellow wood sorrel Great as a snack or a garnish, Oxalis is a tasty edible weed Oxalis stricta Oxalis stricta, also known as yellow wood sorrel or lemon clover, is an annual weed that you can find anywhereand everywhere It spreads aggressively from its seedpod...