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 corniculata   FAMILY Oxalidaceae   Go to FSUS key



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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image of Oxalis corniculata, Creeping Lady's-sorrel

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_xaco2_001_lvd

        

image of Oxalis corniculata, Creeping Lady's-sorrel

JK Marlow    jkm120408_808

April    Greenville County    SC

image of Oxalis corniculata, Creeping Lady's-sorrel

JK Marlow    jkm120408_811

April    Greenville County    SC

image of Oxalis corniculata, Creeping Lady's-sorrel

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).

image of Oxalis corniculata, Creeping Lady's-sorrel

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

 

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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

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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

 

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