Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Oxalidales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Oxalis macrantha
FAMILY
Oxalidaceae
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Sadie Price’s Yellow Wood-sorrel at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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, 1938)
Xanthoxalis macrantha
COMMON NAME:
Sadie Price’s Yellow Wood-sorrel
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_xapr_001_lvd
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_oxalis_priceae1_al
April Lawrence County AL
Flowers in umbelliform cymes above the level of the leaves, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
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Bruce A. Sorrie bas_oxalis_priceae1_alb
April Lawrence County AL
Blades of the leaflets mostly 7-12mm wide, pubescent, per Manual of the Southeastern Flora (JK Small, 1933).
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, 1938)
Xanthoxalis macrantha
3469
Forb
Perennial
Native west of the Carolinas & Georgia
Documented growing wild in - - -
Rare
Look for it in rich woodlands, per Weakley's Flora
Click here to see a more detailed map from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Herbarium,
or click here to see a map from SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
LEAVES:
Ternately compound: 3 leaflets
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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