Flora
of East-Central Indiana
| Yellow Wood Sorrel |
| Scientific Name | Oxalis stricta L. |
| Family Name | Oxalidaceae (Lily Family) |
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Characteristics |
| Habitat: | cosmopolitan |
| Plant Height: | to 5 dm mostly erect, sometimes prostrate |
| Flower Color: | yellow |
| Flower: | perfect; complete; 5 yellow petals; 10 stamens, outer antepetalous, 5 shorter; pistil erect |
| Inflorescence: | terminal flower, usually 2-7 flowered |
| Fruit: | capsular on straight or ascending stalk |
| Leaves: | 1-2 cm wide; palmate with 3 heart-shaped leaflets |
| Bloom Time: | May through October |
| Origins: | believed to be native |
| Other: | referred to as O. europaea in some common field guides, though some differentiate between O. europaea and O. stricta based on whether seedpod stalks are deflexed; Gleason and Cronquist, 1991, does not make same distinction, name taken from this source; leaves close at night |
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| general plant habit | opening flower | fruit | fruit close |
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