3469

Forb
Perennial

Native west of the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in - - -

Rare

Look for it in rich woodlands, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Ternately compound
Alternate & basal

FLOWER:
Spring
Yellow (with strong red lines in corolla throat)
Radially symmetrical
5 sepals
5 petals
10 stamens, of 2 lengths
Flowers (1)3-8 in umbelliform cymes well above the leaves

FRUIT:
Spring

 

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Oxalis macrantha   FAMILY Oxalidaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Oxalis priceae ssp. priceae   FAMILY Oxalidaceae

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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933)
Xanthoxalis macrantha