Oxalis dillenii Jacq.

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Oxalidaceae

• Scientific Name

  Oxalis dillenii Jacq.

• Description

  Species Description - Cespitose perennial without rhizomes, erect to decumbent, but scarcely creeping, mostly antrorsely strigose with nonseptate, pointed hairs, the erect part of the stem light greenish, to 4 dm; stipules to 3 mm, or much smaller; lfls 1–2 cm wide; infl umbelliform, the pedicels abruptly divaricate or deflexed at maturity, but with erect frs; pet yellow, 4–10 mm; fr 1.5–2.5 cm, usually grayish-strigose; seeds brownish, conspicuously rugose transversely, the ridges whitish; 2n=18–24. Nearly cosmopolitan weed, often in natural habitats as well, probably originally native to N. Amer. Numerous infraspecific segregates are often defined on the habit and the amount and distribution of the pubescence. (O. filipes; O. florida; O. stricta, misapplied; Xanthoxalis brittoniae; X. colorea)

• Common Names

  southern yellow wood-sorrel