Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Oxalidales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Oxalis montana
FAMILY
Oxalidaceae
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Mountain Wood-sorrel at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
Closely related to the Eurasian O. acetosella, and sometimes treated as a geographic subspecies or phase of it, per Weakley's Flora (2022)
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Oxalis montana
FAMILY
Oxalidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Oxalis montana
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Oxalis montana
SYNONYMOUS WITH Oxalidaceae in the southeastern United States (Robertson, 1975)
Oxalis acetosella ssp. montana
INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 100-01-001:
Oxalis acetosella FAMILY Oxalidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Oxalis montana
COMMON NAME:
Mountain Wood-sorrel, American Wood-sorrel, Wood Shamrock, White Wood-sorrel
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_oxac3_001_lhd
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Dan Whitten sdw_mountainwoodsorrel
April Sevier County TN
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Petals heavily veined with pink, a yellow spot at the base, notched at tip, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).
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JK Marlow jkm120523_160
May Graham County NC
Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmomontana_mm2
June Yancey County NC
Mount Mitchell
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmomontana_mm4
June Yancey County NC
Mount Mitchell
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JK Marlow jkm0407v_29
July Mitchell County NC
The Roan Highlands
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Tim Spira tpsomontana9
July
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JK Marlow jkm190914_1502
September Swain County NC
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmomontana_brp1
Month Unknown NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmomontana_brp9
Month Unknown NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Leaves all basal and long-stalked, each blade with heart-shaped leaflets, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Oxalis montana
FAMILY
Oxalidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Oxalis montana
FAMILY
Oxalidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Oxalis montana
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Oxalis montana
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Oxalidaceae in the southeastern United States (Robertson, 1975)
Oxalis acetosella ssp. montana
INCLUDED WITHIN
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 100-01-001:
Oxalis acetosella
FAMILY
Oxalidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Oxalis montana
1005
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: spruce-fir forests, northern hardwood forests, restricted to high elevations southwards, per Weakley's Flora
Native to North Carolina & Georgia
Uncommon in NC Mountains, rare in GA Mountains
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
LEAVES:
Ternately compound: 3 leaflets
Basal
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
White
(with pink veins)
Radially symmetrical
5 sepals
5 petals
10 stamens, of 2 lengths
Flowers solitary
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962) p082
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p184
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p160
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p043
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p133
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p168
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p202
- Wildflowers & Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains and Piedmont (Spira, 2011) p414
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p088
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