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
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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 Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Oxalis grandis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Oxalis grandis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Oxalidaceae in the southeastern United States (Robertson, 1975)
Oxalis grandis
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 100-01-008:
Oxalis grandis FAMILY Oxalidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Xanthoxalis grandis
COMMON NAME:
Large Wood-sorrel, Great Yellow Wood-sorrel
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_xagr_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm120517_119
May Yancey County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Leaflets edged in reddish purple and up to 2" wide, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).
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JK Marlow jkm120517_122
May Yancey County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Leaves mostly on the distal half of the stem, per Again: Taxonomy of Yellow-flowered Caulescent Oxalis in eastern North America (Nesom, 2009).
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmograndis_boomer2
May
Leaflets obcordate, lobed 1/5 length, per Again: Taxonomy of Yellow-flowered Caulescent Oxalis in eastern North America (Nesom, 2009).
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JK Marlow s060513_b
May Clay County NC
Nantahala National Forest: Tusquitee Ranger District
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
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Oxalis grandis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Oxalis grandis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Oxalidaceae in the southeastern United States (Robertson, 1975)
Oxalis grandis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 100-01-008:
Oxalis grandis
FAMILY
Oxalidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Xanthoxalis grandis
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
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p246
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p257
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p042
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p134
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p168
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p201
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p088
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