a species of flowering plant in the buckwheat family. It is common in the tundra of Arctic. Further south, it has a circumboreal
Eat raw or cooked.The leaves have a fresh acidic taste and are rich in vitamin C, containing about 36 mg/100g. They were used by the Inuit to prevent and cure scurvy, and can be used in salads. It is called qunguliq in Inuktitut.
The above-ground parts of the plant are edible when cooked The mountain sorrel grows 4-24 inches high, in moist soil; often in rocky outcrops near snow flushes, and on the north side of slopes, where it is shadowed. The flowers and leaves are green, tinged with red.
The above-ground parts of the plant are edible when cooked The mountain sorrel grows 4-24 inches high, in moist soil; often in rocky outcrops near snow flushes, and on the north side of slopes, where it is shadowed. The flowers and leaves are green, tinged with red.
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