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dwarf wood-sorrel
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agrito, peony-leaf wood-sorrel
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| Herbs annual, caulescent, sometimes densely cespitose, rhizomes and stolons absent, bulbs absent. |
Herbs perennial, caulescent, caudex present, rhizomes and stolons absent, bulbs absent, taproot sometimes with tuberlike portions. |
1–5 from base, erect, 0.5–7 cm, usually herbaceous, sometimes becoming ± woody proximally, hirtellous to villous-hirtellous. |
mostly 1–3 from base, erect, 5–20(–30) cm, becoming woody proximally, finely hirtellous-villous. |
cauline; stipules rudimentary; petiole 1.5–6 cm; leaflets 3, green, obcordate, 5–12 mm, lobed 1/5 length, lobes apically convex, surfaces glabrous, oxalate deposits absent. |
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. |
racemes, 6–14-flowered; peduncles 3–15 cm. |
1-flowered, axillary at distal nodes; peduncles 15–25(–50) cm. |
heterostylous; sepal apices without tubercles; petals yellow, 6–12 mm. |
heterostylous; sepal apices without tubercles; petals yellow to orange-yellow, 11–13 mm. |
ovoid to spheric, 3–5 mm, puberulent. |
broadly cylindric, 5–8(–10) mm, densely pilose. |
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| Flowering Apr–Jun. |
Flowering Feb–Jun, sporadically year-round. |
| Disturbed sites, riparian woodlands, riverbanks, gravelly beaches, rock crevices, foothill woodlands. |
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. |
| 10–800 m. (0–2600 ft.) |
0–500 m. (0–1600 ft.) |
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CA; South America (Chile) [Introduced in North America] |
TX; Mexico (Coahuila, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Veracruz) |
Oxalis laxa is widespread in California in the eastern part of the Central Valley and along the central coast. (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.) |
| FNA vol. 12, p. 145. |
FNA vol. 12, p. 138. |
| Oxalidaceae > Oxalis |
Oxalidaceae > Oxalis |
O. albicans, O. articulata, O. bowiei, O. brasiliensis, O. caerulea, O. californica, O. colorea, O. corniculata, O. debilis, O. decaphylla, O. dichondrifolia, O. dillenii, O. drummondii, O. florida, O. frutescens, O. grandis, O. hirta, O. hispidula, O. illinoensis, O. incarnata, O. intermedia, O. latifolia, O. macrantha, O. metcalfei, O. montana, O. oregana, O. pes-caprae, O. pilosa, O. purpurea, O. stricta, O. suksdorfii, O. texana, O. triangularis, O. trilliifolia, O. violacea |
O. albicans, O. articulata, O. bowiei, O. brasiliensis, O. caerulea, O. californica, O. colorea, O. corniculata, O. debilis, O. decaphylla, O. dillenii, O. drummondii, O. florida, O. frutescens, O. grandis, O. hirta, O. hispidula, O. illinoensis, O. incarnata, O. intermedia, O. latifolia, O. laxa, O. macrantha, O. metcalfei, O. montana, O. oregana, O. pes-caprae, O. pilosa, O. purpurea, O. stricta, O. suksdorfii, O. texana, O. triangularis, O. trilliifolia, O. violacea |
| O. corniculata var. sericea, O. micrantha, O. radicosa, O. simulans |
Monoxalis dichondrifolia |
| Hooker & Arnott: Bot. Beechey Voy., 13. (1830) |
A. Gray: Smithsonian Contr. Knowl. 3(5): 27. (1852) — (as dichondraefolia) |
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