Wood-sorrel

Description:

These plants are annual or perennial. The leaves are divided into three to ten or more obovate and top notched leaflets, arranged palmately with all the leaflets of roughly equal size. The majority of species have three leaflets; in these species, the leaves are superficially similar to those of some clovers. Some species exhibit rapid changes in leaf angle in response to temporarily high light intensity to decrease photoinhibition

Habitat:

Woodland,scrub, rocky places, hedgerows and embankments; generally on humus-rich soils on lowland and also on mountains

Notes:

Wood sorrel is an edible wild plant that has been consumed by humans around the world for millennia