NameThatPlant.net: Oxalis grandis

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Oxalis grandis FAMILY Oxalidaceae Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read more about Large Wood-sorrel at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Oxalis grandis FAMILY Oxalidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 100-01-008:

Oxalis grandis FAMILY Oxalidaceae

COMMON NAME:
Large Wood-sorrel, Great Yellow Wood-sorrel

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Oxalis grandis FAMILY Oxalidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Oxalis grandis FAMILY Oxalidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 100-01-008:
Oxalis grandis FAMILY Oxalidaceae

1004

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Rich moist forests, rocky bluffs, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common in Mountains of GA & NC (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

LEAVES:
Ternately compound: 3 leaflets
Alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Yellow (with faint red lines in corolla throat)
Radially symmetrical
5 sepals
5 petals
10 stamens, of 2 lengths

Flowers 1 or 2-4(8) in regular or irregular or umbelliform cymes above leaves

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule

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