Oxalis oregana |
Oxalis hispidula |
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Oregon oxalis, Oregon wood-sorrel, red wood-sorrel |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, acaulous, rhizomes present, fleshy-thickened, densely scaly, stolons absent, bulbs absent. | Herbs perennial, acaulous, rhizomes and stolons absent, bulbs solitary or clustered; mostly 8–15 mm diam.; outer bulb scales 3[–5]-nerved, inner scales thick, reddish brown, rugose. |
Leaves | basal, clustered at rhizome tips; petiole 5–15(–21) cm, sparsely to densely villous, hairs rusty; leaflets 3, green, broadly obcordate, 10–30(–40) mm, lobed 1/5–1/4 length, lobes apically convex, surfaces sparsely villous, oxalate deposits absent. |
basal; petiole 1.5–15 cm, sparsely villous or glabrous; leaflets 3, green, rounded-obcordate, 4–18 mm, lobed 1/6–1/5 length, lobes apically convex to nearly truncate, margins prominently ciliate, hairs stiff, sharp-pointed, abaxial surface strigose to hirsute-strigose, densely hirsute at very base, adaxial surface glabrous, oxalate deposits absent. |
Inflorescences | 1-flowered; scapes (6–)11–25 cm, glabrous or sparsely villous. |
umbelliform cymes, 1(–2)[–4]-flowered; scapes 3–27 cm, glabrous or sparsely hirsute-villous proximally. |
Flowers | heterostylous; sepal apices without tubercles; petals white to deep pink, usually with yellow spot sub-basally and prominent purple veins, (8–)15–25 mm. |
apparently tristylous (mid-styled flowers observed); sepals yellowish green, apices with 2 orange, elongate tubercles; petals yellow basally, otherwise deep rose to purple or violet, with dark purple veins proximally, 11–20 mm. |
Capsules | ovoid, 6–8(–12) mm, glabrate. |
fusiform, mature size not observed, indumentum not seen. |
Oxalis oregana |
Oxalis hispidula |
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Phenology | Flowering Feb–Sep. | Flowering Oct–Nov. |
Habitat | Douglas fir, mixed fir, cedar-spruce, mixed conifer, and hemlock-maple forests, maple woodlands, alder glens, Gaultheria thickets, stream banks. | Wet ditches, disturbed roadsides. |
Elevation | 10–800(–1000) m. (0–2600(–3300) ft.) | 10–90 m. (0–300 ft.) |
Distribution |
CA; OR; WA; BC
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AL; South America (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay) [Introduced in North America] |
Discussion | Oxalis oregana has sometimes been treated as a disjunct geographical taxon of the European O. acetosella Linnaeus (see comments under 21. O. montana). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Oxalis hispidula is naturalized in Baldwin County (H. E. Horne et al. 2013). The species is recognized by its leaves without oxalate deposits, outer bulb scales with mostly three nerves, flowers one (or two) per scape, and corollas violet-purple with dark veins. It was noted by S. Rosenfeldt and B. G. Galati (2009) to be tristylous. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 12, p. 148. | FNA vol. 12, p. 152. |
Parent taxa | Oxalidaceae > Oxalis | Oxalidaceae > Oxalis |
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Synonyms | O. acetosella subsp. oregana, O. oregana var. smalliana, O. oregana var. tracyi, O. smalliana | |
Name authority | Nuttall: in J. Torrey and A. Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1: 211. (1838) | Zuccarini: Denkschr. Königl. Akad. Wiss. München 9: 143. (1825) |
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