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 violacea   FAMILY Oxalidaceae   Go to FSUS key



INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Oxalis violacea   FAMILY Oxalidaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Oxalis violacea

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America

Oxalis violacea

INCLUDED WITHIN Oxalidaceae in the southeastern United States (Robertson, 1975)

Oxalis violacea

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 100-01-003:

Oxalis violacea   FAMILY Oxalidaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Ionoxalis violacea

 

COMMON NAME:
Violet Wood-sorrel


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image of Oxalis violacea, Violet Wood-sorrel

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_iovi_001_lvd

        

image of Oxalis violacea, Violet Wood-sorrel

JK Marlow    jkm120325_836

March    McCormick County    SC

Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve

image of Oxalis violacea, Violet Wood-sorrel

JK Marlow    jkm120325_836b

March    McCormick County    SC

Stevens Creek Heritage Preserve

Sepals 4-7mm long, glabrous, each with an orange gland at the apex, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Oxalis violacea, Violet Wood-sorrel

JK Marlow    jkm090404_166

April    Walker County    GA

Pigeon Mountain

Flowering stalk erect, 4-8" long, much surpasing the leaves, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).

image of Oxalis violacea, Violet Wood-sorrel

JK Marlow    jkm090404_176

April    Walker County    GA

Pigeon Mountain

image of Oxalis violacea, Violet Wood-sorrel

JK Marlow    jkm110415_491

April    Carroll County    GA

Each leaf blade consists of 3 heart-shaped leaflets, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).

image of Oxalis violacea, Violet Wood-sorrel

JK Marlow    jkm110415_493

April    Carroll County    GA

Leaves all basal & long-stalked, red-purple on the underside, per Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005).

image of Oxalis violacea, Violet Wood-sorrel

JK Marlow    jkm120414_971

April    Pickens County    SC

Jocassee Gorges

Leaflets notched at the tip and tinged with purple on the backside, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Oxalis violacea, Violet Wood-sorrel

Keith Bradley    kab_oxalis_violacea_0819

April    Newberry County    SC

Lynch's Woods Park

image of Oxalis violacea, Violet Wood-sorrel

Roxanna Martin    rlm41711_153

April    Spartanburg County    SC

image of Oxalis violacea, Violet Wood-sorrel

Roxanna Martin    rlm4808_011

April    Spartanburg County    SC

image of Oxalis violacea, Violet Wood-sorrel

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_oxalis_violacea_2

April        

Flowers about 1/2" across, on leafless stems in umbelliform clusters, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Oxalis violacea, Violet Wood-sorrel

JK Marlow    jkm081102_103

November    Columbia County    GA

Late flowering plants are without foliage, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).

image of Oxalis violacea, Violet Wood-sorrel

JK Marlow    jkm081102_103b

November    Columbia County    GA

image of Oxalis violacea, Violet Wood-sorrel

Patrick D. McMillan    pdmoviolacea_glade2

Month Unknown        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Oxalis violacea   FAMILY Oxalidaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Oxalis violacea   FAMILY Oxalidaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Oxalis violacea

INCLUDED WITHIN Flora of North America
Oxalis violacea

INCLUDED WITHIN Oxalidaceae in the southeastern United States (Robertson, 1975)
Oxalis violacea

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 100-01-003:
Oxalis violacea   FAMILY Oxalidaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Ionoxalis violacea

 

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2203

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Dry to moist forests, per Weakley's Flora

Native to the Carolinas & Georgia

Common (uncommon in GA Coastal Plain)

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LEAVES:
Ternately compound: 3 leaflets
Basal

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rose-lavender
Radially symmetrical
5 sepals
5 petals
10 stamens, of 2 lengths

Flowers in umbels

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer
Capsule

 

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