OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

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

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

(?) INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Oxalis dillenii   FAMILY Oxalidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 100-01-006:

Oxalis florida var. recurva   FAMILY Oxalidaceae

 

COMMON NAME:
 Flowering Yellow Wood-sorrel

 

 

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

(?) INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Oxalis dillenii   FAMILY Oxalidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 100-01-006:
 Oxalis florida var. recurva   FAMILY Oxalidaceae

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3268

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: floodplain forests, moist fields, ditches, bluffs, and moist slopes, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common (uncommon in Carolina Mountains, rare in GA Mountains)

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

LEAVES:
Ternately compound: 3 leaflets
Alternate & basal

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Yellow (without red lines, or with faint red lines)
Radially symmetrical
5 sepals
5 petals
10 stamens, of 2 lengths

Flowers 1-2(3) in umbelliform cymes at the level of or barely above the leaves

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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