Oxalis drummondii
Oxalis dillenii
Drummond's wood-sorrel
common yellow wood-sorrel, Dillen's oxalis, graygreen sorrel, slender yellow wood-sorrel, southern yellow wood-sorrel
(1–)2–8 from base, erect initially, often becoming decumbent or prostrate and stolonlike, rarely rooting at nodes, 10–25 cm, usually herbaceous, sometimes becoming woody proximally, densely and evenly strigillose to strigose from base to peduncles and pedicels, hairs straight, antrorsely appressed, nonseptate, sharp-pointed.
basal;
petiole 5–16 cm;
leaflets 3, green, sometimes with red splotches in irregular medial band adaxially, obtriangular to obcordate, (6–)14–34 mm, lobed 1/4–4/5 length, lobes apically convex to nearly truncate, surfaces glabrous, oxalate deposits absent.
basal and cauline;
stipules oblong, margins narrowly flanged or without free portions, apical auricles absent;
petiole 1–4 cm, hairs nonseptate;
leaflets 3, green, obcordate, (4–)6–15(–21) mm, lobed 1/5–1/3 length, abaxial surface sparsely strigillose, adaxial surface glabrous, oxalate deposits absent.
umbelliform cymes, 3–10-flowered;
scapes (7–)11–23 cm, glabrous.
usually umbelliform cymes, rarely irregular cymes, 1–3(–8)-flowered;
peduncles 1–6(–10) cm.
distylous or rarely homostylous;
sepal apices with 2(–6) orange, linear, thickened, apically confluent tubercles;
petals white to pale green proximally with green veins, pink to violet or purple-violet distally, (8–)15–23 mm.
mostly homostylous;
sepal apices without tubercles;
petals yellow, without red lines, (2.5–)4–8 mm.
cylindric, 4–12 mm, hairy.
angular-cylindric, abruptly tapering to apex, 12–20(–25) mm, densely strigose-pilose, hairs both appressed and spreading, with puberulent understory.
brown, transverse ridges with strong grayish or white lines.
= 14.
= 18, 20, 22, 24.
Oxalis drummondii
Oxalis dillenii
Oxalis drummondii is found in the flora area in central and southern Texas. Reports of this species from Arizona, New Mexico, and trans-Pecos Texas are based on misidentifications of O. latifolia and O. metcalfei.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Decumbent stems of Oxalis dillenii often appear stolonlike, producing erect branches and leaves at the nodes, rarely producing a few adventitious roots. Such plants sometimes are misidentified as O. corniculata, but they differ in their overall habit, stems and rhizomes that become woody, reduced stipules, strigillose cauline vestiture, denser fruit vestiture, and seed color. Plants of O. dillenii in Canada and the western United States appear to be adventive.
Plants of Oxalis dillenii flowering into November and December in Texas and North Carolina, and probably elsewhere, characteristically are depressed in habit, with creeping stems and forming matlike colonies. The corollas are small, with petals 2.5–3 mm. Although similar in habit to typical O. corniculata, these plants do not have stems that root at nodes, and the strigillose vestiture, though reduced in density, and the stipule morphology are like O. dillenii. Whether these are the same genotype as spring-flowering plants or a different entity remains to be investigated. At least some of the variability in O. dillenii, particularly in habit, may be genetically partitioned, as dysploid chromosome races apparently exist.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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