Sorrel (disambiguation)
# Sorrel (disambiguation)

Sorrel, Rumex acetosa, is a perennial herb cultivated as a leaf vegetable.

Sorrel may also refer to:

## Plants

* Averrhoa bilimbi or tree sorrel, a fruit-bearing tree
* Oxalidaceae, family of plants known as the woodsorrel family
* Oxalis, largest genus in the Oxalidaceae, known as woodsorrels, particularly:
   * Oxalis enneaphylla, scurvy-grass sorrel
   * Oxalis oregana, redwood sorrel
* Oxyria digyna, alpine sorrel or mountain sorrel
* Roselle (plant) (Hibiscus sabdariffa), known as Jamaican sorrel, and in the Caribbean simply as "sorrel"
* Rumex, genus of plants containing species known as sorrels, particularly:
   * Rumex acetosella, sheep's sorrel
   * Rumex scutatus, French sorrel
* Sourwood or sorrel tree (Oxydendrum arboreum), a tree native to North America

## Characters

* Hetty Sorrel, a fictional character in George Eliot's novel Adam Bede
* Sorel Bliss, a character in Noël Coward’s 1924 play Hay Fever
* Sorrel, a character in the animated film Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You!

## People

* Moxley Sorrel (1838–1901), American Civil War soldier
* Sorrel Carson (1920–2005), Irish actress, director, and teacher who formed the Academy of Live and Recorded Art in London
* Sorrel Hays (1941-2020), a female American pianist, composer, and artist

## Places

* Sorell, Tasmania, Australia
* Sorrel, Louisiana, United States, a census-designated place

## Other

* Sorrel (drink) or hibiscus tea, a herbal tea infusion popular in Jamaica
* Sorrel (horse), an alternative term for a reddish-colored horse, more often known as "chestnut"
   * Old Sorrel (foaled 1915), an America Quarter Horse stallion
* Heliophorus sena or sorrel sapphire, an Indian butterfly
* USS Sorrel (1864),an American navy ship
