Oxalis articulata |
Oxalis albicans |
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pink oxalis, pink sorrell, windowbox wood-sorrel |
radish-root wood-sorrel, western yellow wood-sorrel |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, acaulous, rhizomes present, thick, woody, irregularly nodulate-segmented, often covered with persistent petiole bases, stolons absent, bulbs absent. | Herbs perennial, caulescent, rhizomes and stolons absent, bulbs absent. |
Aerial stems | usually 2–8 from base, usually decumbent to prostrate, less commonly ascending, sporadically rooting at nodes, 10–40 cm, becoming woody proximally, puberulent to hirtellous-puberulent, hairs usually antrorsely curved or crisped, sometimes ± straight, nonseptate, longer hairs 0.2–0.3(–0.8) mm. |
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Leaves | basal; petiole 11–30 cm; leaflets 3, green to purplish abaxially, green adaxially, rounded-obcordate, 18–20 mm, margins densely loosely ciliate, lobed 1/5–1/3 length, lobes apically convex, surfaces evenly strigose-villous to strigose-hirsute, oxalate deposits in dots concentrated mostly toward margins or over whole surface. |
basal and cauline; stipules rudimentary or oblong, margins narrowly flanged, apical auricles absent; petiole (1–)3–7(–10) cm, hairs nonseptate; leaflets 3, glaucous and gray-green to yellowish green, obcordate, 5–10(–15) mm, lobed 1/5–1/3 length, surfaces glabrous to loosely strigose, oxalate deposits absent. |
Inflorescences | usually umbelliform cymes, less commonly in irregular cymes, 3–12-flowered; scapes 12–28 cm, sparsely strigose. |
umbelliform cymes, 1–2(–3)-flowered; peduncles 1.5–5 cm. |
Flowers | heterostylous; sepal apices with 2 orange tubercles; petals usually purplish rose to red, rarely white, 10–14 mm. |
semihomostylous, within level of leaves; sepal apices without tubercles, surfaces strigose to hirsute-strigose; petals yellow, rarely with red lines proximally, 6–10(–12) mm. |
Capsules | ovoid, 4–8 mm, sparsely strigose. |
angular-cylindric, abruptly tapering to apex, 14–20 mm, strigose-hirsute. |
Seeds | brown to blackish brown, transverse ridges rarely with whitish lines or spots. |
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2n | = 42. |
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Oxalis articulata |
Oxalis albicans |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Jul. | Flowering Apr–Aug(–Oct). |
Habitat | Disturbed places, especially near gardens, lawns, fields, roadsides. | Desert scrub, grasslands, mesquite-acacia, pinyon-juniper, oak-pine-juniper, oak-buckthorn, riparian woodlands (sycamore-hackberry-walnut-ash-willow), stream banks, meadows, washes, hillsides, ravines, canyons, disturbed sites. |
Elevation | 0–250 m. [0–800 ft.] | (600–)700–1900(–2100) m. [(2000–)2300–6200(–6900) ft.] |
Distribution |
AL; AR; CA; FL; GA; LA; MS; NC; OK; OR; SC; TX; VA; South America (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay) [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Europe, Pacific Islands (New Zealand), Australia]
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AZ; NM; TX; Mexico; Central America (Guatemala)
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Discussion | Oxalis articulata in the United States commonly has been identified as O. rubra. Oxalis rubra was treated at subspecific rank by A. Lourteig (1982), but subsp. articulata and subsp. rubra have essentially the same native range and occur in similar habitats. Lourteig identified both subspecies in the United States, noting in her key that vestiture is reduced and the sepals are broader in subsp. rubra. Evidence is weak for recognizing more than a single entity. In the Flora of Panama (Lourteig 1980), she recognized only O. articulata, noting that it is naturalized in other parts of America and in the Old World. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 12, p. 153. | FNA vol. 12, p. 142. |
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Synonyms | O. articulata subsp. rubra, O. rubra | O. californica var. subglabra, O. corniculata subsp. albicans, O. corniculata var. wrightii, O. pilosa var. wrightii, O. wrightii, Xanthoxalis albicans, X. wrightii |
Name authority | Savigny: in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl. 4: 686. (1798) | Kunth: in A. von Humboldt et al., Nov. Gen. Sp. 5(fol.): 189; 5(qto.): 244. (1822) |
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