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Forb
Annual/Perennial

Non-native: New World tropics & subtropics? possibly including the deep South

Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Uncommon (rare in GA & SC Mountains)

Look for it in gardens, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Ternately compound: 3 leaflets
Alternate & basal

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Yellow (without red lines)
Radially symmetrical
5 sepals
5 petals
10 stamens, of 2 lengths
Flowers 1 or 2–3(6) in irregular or umbelliform cymes

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

• Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p246
• Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p203
• Weeds of Southern Turfgrasses p158

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Oxalidales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Oxalis corniculata   FAMILY Oxalidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Oxalis corniculata   FAMILY Oxalidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 100-01-004:
Oxalis corniculata   FAMILY Oxalidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Oxalis repens

GREATER THAN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Xanthoxalis corniculata