Wood Sorrel
By Sanmcgill
Wood Sorrel (Oxalis) - Dwarf and often pretty perennial or annual plants, for the most part more happy and free in temperate countries, but some hardy with us on warm borders and on the rock garden.
Wood Sorrell
Characteristics
Tiny white flowers on this clover like plant appear in woodland clearings and is said to be edible.
Wood Sorrel, Shamrock
Scientific Name: Oxalis acetosella L.
Synonym:
Family: Oxalidaceae ...
In the case of Yellow Wood Sorrel the leaves are alternate. Each leaf is clover like, divided into three heart shaped parts creased down the middle.
Flowers: The flowers have 5 Regular Parts.
Pink wood sorrel is an escaped exotic ornamental plant that is now found throughout Florida (Wunderlin, 2003). It is native to tropical America. Pink wood sorrel flowers from spring through fall.
There are more
Wood Sorrel Family pictures
at the Texas A&M Biometrics Experimental Database.
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Windowbox Wood Sorrel
Oxalidaceae
Oxalis rubra or Windowbox Wood Sorrel, a native of Brazil, is the most common Oxalis in cultivation. It has a thick, woody crown and a tuber that will reach up to 12 inches (~30 cm) in containers.
Yellow Wood Sorrel
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Redwood sorrel is a creeping native perennial with shamrock-shaped leaves and cup-shaped pink, lilac, or white flowers over a long period from spring to fall. It makes a nice groundcover.
Redwood Sorrel - Oxalis oregana
Speedwell
Corn Speedwell - Veronica arvensis
Wall Speedwell - Veronica arvensis ...
Pink Wood Sorrel
Shamrock
Oxalis crassipes 'Rosea' is a popular shade plant that just doesn't know when to quit blooming! Although it's a perennial, this Shamrock blooms like an annual from late spring to early fall if kept moist.
Pale wood sorrel (Oxalis incarnata) is regarded as an environmental weed in Victoria and as a minor environmental weed in New South Wales, Tasmania and Western Australia.
dense infestation (Photo: Trevor James)
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Chilean Wood Sorrel;
aka, Silver Shamrock;
aka, Pink Carpet Oxalis;
aka, Pink Buttercups;
aka, Pink Sauerklee;
aka, Sandoxalis ...
Price's Yellow Wood Sorrel [English]: Oxalis priceae
Priceless Gift Daylily [English]: Hemerocallis 'Priceless Gift'
Priceless Memories Daylily [English]: Hemerocallis 'Priceless Memories' ...
(k´sls) or wood sorrel, any species of the plant genus Oxalis. Most of the cultivated kinds are tropical herbs used as window plants.
Common name Wood sorrel, yellow sorrel, pink sorrel or pink shamrock
Botanical name Oxalis corniculata, O. debilis, O. latifolia
Areas affected Beds, borders and lawns
Main causes Spreads via bulbils and seed ...
Oregon Oxalis, Redwood Sorrel oks-AH-lis or-ee-GO-an
Herbaceous perennial, to 2.5 to 4 inches (6-10 cm) tall, from a horizontal creeping rhizome. Leaves have 3 leaflets, 6 × 3.
OXALIDACEÆ; Wood Sorrel Family
Oca is a staple Andean root-crop, surpassed in value there only by the potato.
Oxalis is not a true shamrock -- it's in the Wood Sorrell family.
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other three-leafed plants - such as black medic (Medicago lupulina), red clover (Trifolium pratense), and Common wood sorrel (genus Oxalis) - are sometimes designated as shamrocks.
Description:
This purple-leaved cultivar of Wood Sorrel is native to South America, and performs well in containerized situations.
All of these plants, which belong to the oxalis family, are lilliputian in size and are easily overlooked. One species, O. corniculata, the creeping wood sorrel, ...
Although not hardy enough to remain outside in cold weather, oxalis can be used as annuals in flower-beds or large mixed containers, then overwintered indoors. Hardy (to Zone 6), non-weedy wood sorrels (Oxalis articulata forma crassipes) from Japan ...
pink wood sorrel; 'ihi-pehu Oxalis debilis var. corymbosa
pinkhead smartweed Polygonum capitatum
pipili Drymaria cordata
pipinola; chayote Sechium edule
pit-seed goosefoot Chenopodium berlandieri
plum leaved apple, crabapple Malus prunifolia ...
 See also: Sorrel, Grape, Orchid, Primrose, Medic
  
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