title: Sorrel (disambiguation)
text: # 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
  