Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Oxalidales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (5/21/15):
Oxalis florida
FAMILY
Oxalidaceae
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Read more about Flowering Yellow Wood-sorrel at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Oxalis priceae ssp. colorea
FAMILY
Oxalidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Oxalis macrantha
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 100-01-006:
Oxalis florida var. recurva
FAMILY
Oxalidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Oxalis recurva var. recurva
COMMON NAME:
Flowering Yellow Wood-sorrel
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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (5/21/15):
Oxalis florida
FAMILY
Oxalidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Oxalis priceae ssp. colorea
FAMILY
Oxalidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Oxalis macrantha
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 100-01-006:
Oxalis florida var. recurva
FAMILY
Oxalidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Oxalis recurva var. recurva
3268
Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Habitat: floodplain forests, moist fields, ditches, bluffs, and moist slopes, per Weakley's Flora
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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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