Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Oxalidales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Oxalis corniculata
FAMILY
Oxalidaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Creeping Lady's-sorrel at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Oxalis corniculata
FAMILY
Oxalidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Oxalis corniculata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Oxalis corniculata
INCLUDED WITHIN Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
Oxalis corniculata
SYNONYMOUS WITH Oxalidaceae in the southeastern United States (Robertson, 1975)
Oxalis corniculata
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 100-01-004:
Oxalis corniculata FAMILY Oxalidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Oxalis repens
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Xanthoxalis corniculata
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Xanthoxalis langloisii
COMMON NAME:
Creeping Lady's-sorrel
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_xaco2_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm120408_808
April Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120408_811
April Greenville County SC
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Keith Bradley kab_o_corniculata_77454
July Miami-Dade County FL
Castellow Hammock Park
Leaflets about 1cm long and often considerably less. Petals 5-7mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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JK Marlow jkm141025_338
October Greenville County SC
Swamp Rabbit Trail
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Oxalis corniculata
FAMILY
Oxalidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Oxalis corniculata
FAMILY
Oxalidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Oxalis corniculata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Oxalis corniculata
INCLUDED WITHIN
Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
Oxalis corniculata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Oxalidaceae in the southeastern United States (Robertson, 1975)
Oxalis corniculata
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 100-01-004:
Oxalis corniculata
FAMILY
Oxalidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Oxalis repens
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Xanthoxalis corniculata
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Xanthoxalis langloisii
1001
Forb
Annual/Perennial
Habitat: Gardens, fields, disturbed areas, sometimes more natural areas including pinelands, dunes, per Weakley's Flora
Non-native: New World tropics & subtropics? possibly including the deep South
Common in NC Mountains & NC Piedmont, uncommon to 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 & basal
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Yellow
(without red lines)
Radially symmetrical
5 sepals
5 petals
10 stamens, of 2 lengths
Flowers 1 or 2–3(6) in irregular or umbelliform cymes
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p246
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p203
- Weeds of Southern Turfgrasses (Murphy et al., 1992) p158
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