Oxalis trilliifolia |
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great oxalis, great wood-sorrel, three leaf woodsorrel, trillium leaf oxalis, trillium-leaf wood-sorrel |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, acaulous, rhizomes present, fleshy-thickened, densely scaly, stolons absent, bulbs absent. |
Leaves | basal, clustered at rhizome tips; petiole 15–30 cm; leaflets 3, green, broadly obcordate, 20–40(–60) mm, lobed 1/6–1/4 length, lobes apically convex, surfaces sparsely villous, oxalate deposits absent. |
Inflorescences | umbelliform cymes, 2–9(–15)-flowered; scapes 15–25 cm, glabrous or sparsely villous. |
Flowers | heterostylous; sepal apices without tubercles; petals white to pinkish, sometimes greenish proximally, without prominent veins, 8–14 mm. |
Capsules | narrowly fusiform, 15–25(–30) mm, glabrous. |
Oxalis trilliifolia |
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Phenology | Flowering May–Sep. |
Habitat | Redwood, spruce-fir, Douglas fir, hemlock, hemlock-cedar, hemlock-alder woodlands, stream margins, swamps. |
Elevation | 20–1800 m. [70–5900 ft.] |
Distribution |
CA; ID; OR; WA
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Source | FNA vol. 12, p. 147. |
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Synonyms | Hesperoxalis trilliifolia |
Name authority | Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 118. (1831) — (as trilliifolium) |
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