Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Oxalidales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Oxalis macrantha
FAMILY
Oxalidaceae
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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 Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Oxalis macrantha
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Oxalis macrantha
SYNONYMOUS WITH Tennessee Flora Committee (2015)
Oxalis priceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Oxalis priceae ssp. priceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Oxalidaceae in the southeastern United States (Robertson, 1975)
Oxalis priceae ssp. priceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Oxalis recurva
SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Oxalis recurva var. macrantha
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Xanthoxalis hirsuticaulis
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Xanthoxalis macrantha
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Xanthoxalis priceae
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 OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Oxalis macrantha
FAMILY
Oxalidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Oxalis priceae ssp. priceae
FAMILY
Oxalidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Oxalis macrantha
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Oxalis macrantha
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Tennessee Flora Committee (2015)
Oxalis priceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Oxalis priceae ssp. priceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Oxalidaceae in the southeastern United States (Robertson, 1975)
Oxalis priceae ssp. priceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Oxalis recurva
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Oxalis recurva var. macrantha
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Xanthoxalis hirsuticaulis
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Xanthoxalis macrantha
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Xanthoxalis priceae
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Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Rich woodlands, per Weakley's Flora
Native to North Carolina
Rare (historically in NC, but not recently seen)
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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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