Oxalis articulata |
Oxalis dichondrifolia |
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pink oxalis, pink sorrell, windowbox wood-sorrel |
agrito, peony-leaf 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, caudex present, rhizomes and stolons absent, bulbs absent, taproot sometimes with tuberlike portions. |
Aerial stems | mostly 1–3 from base, erect, 5–20(–30) cm, becoming woody proximally, finely hirtellous-villous. |
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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. |
cauline; stipules brownish, linear-setiform, margins without flanges, apical auricles absent; petiole (0.5–)1–3 cm; leaflet 1, dull gray-green, suborbiculate to oblong-obovate or ovate, 5–37 mm, not lobed, apex concave or truncate to retuse and apiculate, surfaces strigose-hirsute, oxalate deposits absent. |
Inflorescences | usually umbelliform cymes, less commonly in irregular cymes, 3–12-flowered; scapes 12–28 cm, sparsely strigose. |
1-flowered, axillary at distal nodes; peduncles 15–25(–50) cm. |
Flowers | heterostylous; sepal apices with 2 orange tubercles; petals usually purplish rose to red, rarely white, 10–14 mm. |
heterostylous; sepal apices without tubercles; petals yellow to orange-yellow, 11–13 mm. |
Capsules | ovoid, 4–8 mm, sparsely strigose. |
broadly cylindric, 5–8(–10) mm, densely pilose. |
2n | = 42. |
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Oxalis articulata |
Oxalis dichondrifolia |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Jul. | Flowering Feb–Jun, sporadically year-round. |
Habitat | Disturbed places, especially near gardens, lawns, fields, roadsides. | Gravelly hills, clay dunes, limestone slopes, calcareous marl, sand, sandy loam, sandy silt, alluvial soils, brushlands, mesquite thickets, chaparral, roadsides, fields, ditch and river margins. |
Elevation | 0–250 m. (0–800 ft.) | 0–500 m. (0–1600 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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TX; Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Veracruz) |
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.) |
Oxalis dichondrifolia is fairly widespread in southern Texas. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 12, p. 153. | FNA vol. 12, p. 138. |
Parent taxa | Oxalidaceae > Oxalis | Oxalidaceae > Oxalis |
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Synonyms | O. articulata subsp. rubra, O. rubra | Monoxalis dichondrifolia |
Name authority | Savigny: in J. Lamarck et al., Encycl. 4: 686. (1798) | A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 3(5): 27. (1852) — (as dichondraefolia) |
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