Waldsauerklee

Prefers moist shady conditions and a humus rich soil in shade or dappled sunlight. Dislikes very heavy and wet soils. Plants are hardy to about -25°c. A dainty woodland carpeter growing well in a woodland or wild garden. When well sited the plants can run aggressively and also self-sow. The plant flowers in early spring, but does not produce much fertile seed at this time. Most of the fertile seed is produced from cleistogamous flowers during the summer.

Edible Parts: Flowers Leaves Edible Uses: Curdling agent Leaves - raw or cooked. A delicious lemony flavour, the leaves make a refreshing, thirst-quenching munch and are also added to salads, soups, sauces etc. This leaf should be used in moderation, see the notes above on toxicity. Flowers - raw. A decorative addition to salads[K]. The dried plant can be used as a curdling agent for plant milks.

Cleanser The juice of the leaves removes iron mould stains from linen. Plants can be grown as a ground cover in woodland or under the shade of shrubs. They should be spaced about 45cm apart each way.

Heimisch: Albania, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Central European Russia, China South-Central, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, DK, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, Flanders, France, Føroyar, GL, Germany, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, IS, Iceland, Iceland; Faeroe Isl.; England (England, Wales, Isle of Man, Scotland, Outer Hebrides, Orkney Isl., Shetland Isl., Isles of Scilly); Ireland (Ireland, Northern Ireland); Denmark; Norway; Sweden; Finland; Netherlands; Belgium; Luxembourg; Germany (Brandenburg, Berlin, Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Hessen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Schleswig-Holstein, Saarland, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen); Switzerland; Liechtenstein; Austria; Poland; Czech Republic; Slovakia; Hungary; Portugal; Spain; Andorra; Channel Isl. (Sark, Jersey); Slovenia; Croatia; North Macedonia; Albania; Romania; Greece (mountains of N-Greece, south to Mt. Pelion); Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Belarus; C-European Russia; N-European Russia; W-European Russia; Ukraine; ?+Algeria; Siberia (Altay, Buryatia, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Tuva, W-Siberia, Yakutia); Russian Far East (Amur, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Kuril Isl., Primorye, Sakhalin); Kazakhstan; Northern Caucasus; Georgia [Caucasus]; Turkey (N-Anatolia, NE-Anatolia, NW-Anatolia: Bithynia); China (Gansu, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan); Tibet; Mongolia; North Korea; South Korea; Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu); Taiwan; Pakistan (Jhelum, Swat, Hazara); Nepal; Bhutan; India (Jammu & Kashmir, Poonch, Tamil Nadu, Sikkim, Chumbi); Myanmar; Vietnam; Philippines, Inner Mongolia, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kamchatka, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., Manchuria, Manizales, Mongolia, NO, NW. Balkan Pen., Netherlands, North Caucasus, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Portugal Continental, Primorye, Romania, SE, Sakhalin, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, TW, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tuva, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine, Vermont-US, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya