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 Flora of North America

Oxalis florida

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)

Oxalis dillenii

INCLUDED WITHIN Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)

Oxalis corniculata

INCLUDING (MISAPPLIED) Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)

Oxalis priceae ssp. colorea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)

Oxalis macrantha

INCLUDING Oxalidaceae in the southeastern United States (Robertson, 1975)

Oxalis dillenii ssp. filipes

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

Oxalis florida var. recurva   FAMILY Oxalidaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Oxalis recurva

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Oxalis filipes

SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)

Oxalis recurva var. recurva

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Xanthoxalis filipes

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Xanthoxalis recurva

 

COMMON NAME:
 Flowering Yellow Wood-sorrel

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image of Oxalis florida, Flowering Yellow Wood-sorrel

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_xabr2_001_lvd

        

 

 

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 Flora of North America
 Oxalis florida

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
 Oxalis dillenii

INCLUDED WITHIN Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
 Oxalis corniculata

INCLUDING (MISAPPLIED) Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
 Oxalis priceae ssp. colorea

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
 Oxalis macrantha

INCLUDING Oxalidaceae in the southeastern United States (Robertson, 1975)
 Oxalis dillenii ssp. filipes

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

INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
 Oxalis recurva

INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
 Oxalis filipes

SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
 Oxalis recurva var. recurva

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
 Xanthoxalis filipes

INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
 Xanthoxalis recurva

 

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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)

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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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