Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Fabids: Oxalidales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Oxalis florida
FAMILY
Oxalidaceae
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(?) INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Oxalis dillenii
FAMILY
Oxalidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Oxalis florida
INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Oxalis dillenii
INCLUDED WITHIN Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
Oxalis corniculata
INCLUDING (MISAPPLIED) Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Oxalis priceae ssp. colorea
SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Oxalis macrantha
INCLUDING Oxalidaceae in the southeastern United States (Robertson, 1975)
Oxalis dillenii ssp. filipes
SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 100-01-006:
Oxalis florida var. recurva FAMILY Oxalidaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Oxalis recurva
INCLUDING Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Oxalis filipes
SYNONYMOUS WITH Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Oxalis recurva var. recurva
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Xanthoxalis filipes
INCLUDING Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Xanthoxalis recurva
COMMON NAME:
Flowering Yellow Wood-sorrel
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_xabr2_001_lvd
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Oxalis florida
FAMILY
Oxalidaceae
(?) INCLUDED WITHIN
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Oxalis dillenii
FAMILY
Oxalidaceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America
Oxalis florida
INCLUDED WITHIN
Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2015)
Oxalis dillenii
INCLUDED WITHIN
Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida (Wunderlin & Hansen, 2011)
Oxalis corniculata
INCLUDING (MISAPPLIED)
Floristic Synthesis of North America (Kartesz, 1999)
Oxalis priceae ssp. colorea
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991)
Oxalis macrantha
INCLUDING
Oxalidaceae in the southeastern United States (Robertson, 1975)
Oxalis dillenii ssp. filipes
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 100-01-006:
Oxalis florida var. recurva
FAMILY
Oxalidaceae
INCLUDED WITHIN
Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Oxalis recurva
INCLUDING
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Oxalis filipes
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Gray's Manual of Botany (Fernald, 1950)
Oxalis recurva var. recurva
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Xanthoxalis filipes
INCLUDING
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Xanthoxalis recurva
3268
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: floodplain forests, moist fields, ditches, bluffs, and moist slopes, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common (uncommon in Carolina Mountains, rare in GA Mountains)
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LEAVES:
Ternately compound: 3 leaflets
Alternate & basal
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Yellow
(without red lines, or with faint red lines)
Radially symmetrical
5 sepals
5 petals
10 stamens, of 2 lengths
Flowers 1-2(3) in umbelliform cymes at the level of or barely above the leaves
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule
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