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Your search found 11 taxa in the family Oxalidaceae, Wood Sorrel family, as understood by Weakley's Flora.
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Common Name:
Mountain Wood-sorrel, American Wood-sorrel, Wood Shamrock, White Wood-sorrel
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Oxalis montana FAMILY: Oxalidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Oxalis montana FAMILY: Oxalidaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Oxalis acetosella 100-01-001 FAMILY: Oxalidaceae
Habitat: Spruce-fir forests, northern hardwood forests, restricted to high elevations southwards
Uncommon in NC Mountains, rare in GA Mountains
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
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Common Name:
Windowbox Wood-sorrel
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Oxalis articulata FAMILY: Oxalidaceae
INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Oxalis rubra FAMILY: Oxalidaceae
INCLUDING Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Oxalis rubra 100-01-002 FAMILY: Oxalidaceae
Habitat: Roadsides, old gardens
Common in SC Coastal Plain, uncommon in Coastal Plain of GA & NC (rare in elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Non-native: South America
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Common Name:
Violet Wood-sorrel
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Oxalis violacea FAMILY: Oxalidaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS National Database: Oxalis violacea FAMILY: Oxalidaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Oxalis violacea 100-01-003 FAMILY: Oxalidaceae
Habitat: Dry to moist forests
Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Creeping Lady's-sorrel
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Oxalis corniculata FAMILY: Oxalidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Oxalis corniculata FAMILY: Oxalidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Oxalis corniculata 100-01-004 FAMILY: Oxalidaceae
Habitat: Gardens, fields, disturbed areas, sometimes more natural areas including pinelands, dunes
Common in NC Mountains & NC Piedmont, uncommon to rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC
Non-native: New World tropics & subtropics? possibly including the deep South
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Common Name:
Southern Yellow Wood-sorrel, Slender Yellow Wood-sorrel
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Oxalis dillenii FAMILY: Oxalidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Oxalis dillenii FAMILY: Oxalidaceae
INCLUDING Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Oxalis dillenii 100-01-005/006ab FAMILY: Oxalidaceae
Habitat: Roadsides, pastures, lawns, a wide variety of other habitats
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common Name: Flowering Yellow Wood-sorrel
Weakley's Flora: (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): Oxalis florida var. recurva 100-01-006 FAMILY: Oxalidaceae
Habitat: Floodplain forests, moist fields, ditches, bluffs, and moist slopes
Common (uncommon in Carolina Mountains, rare in GA Mountains)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Small's wood-sorrel, Tufted Yellow Wood-sorrel, (NOT Sadie Price’s Yellow Wood-sorrel)
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Oxalis colorea FAMILY: Oxalidaceae
(?) PLANTS National Database: Oxalis priceae ssp. colorea FAMILY: Oxalidaceae
Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, dry-mesic and mesic forests, thin soils around rock outcrops, disturbed areas
Uncommon (rare in GA Mountains & in NC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Sadie Price’s Yellow Wood-sorrel
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Oxalis macrantha FAMILY: Oxalidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Oxalis priceae ssp. priceae FAMILY: Oxalidaceae
Habitat: Rich woodlands
Rare (historically in NC, but not recently seen)
Native to North Carolina
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Common Name:
Common Yellow Wood-sorrel
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Oxalis stricta FAMILY: Oxalidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS National Database: Oxalis stricta FAMILY: Oxalidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968): Oxalis stricta 100-01-007 FAMILY: Oxalidaceae
Habitat: Disturbed areas, also in a variety of natural habitats
Common
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
Large Wood-sorrel, Great Yellow Wood-sorrel
Weakley's Flora: (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): Oxalis grandis 100-01-008 FAMILY: Oxalidaceae
Habitat: Rich moist forests, rocky bluffs
Common in Mountains of GA & NC (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
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Common Name:
pink woodsorrel
Weakley's Flora: (4/24/22) Oxalis debilis FAMILY: Oxalidaceae
INCLUDING PLANTS National Database: Oxalis debilis var. corymbosa FAMILY: Oxalidaceae
Habitat: Disturbed areas
Rare
Non-native: South America
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