Creeping Yellow Woodsorrel
Creeping Yellow Woodsorrel, Creeping Woodsorrel
Oxalis corniculata L.
Oxalidaceae (Woodsorrel Family)
seedling ▲
▲ ▼ mature plants, showing stolons
▲ flowering plants
Creeping woodsorrel:
- similar to yellow woodsorrel (gray-green woodsorrel)
- may be a perennial in warm areas
- has more reddish leaves
- has slightly smaller flowers than yellow woodsorrel
- roots at nodes & produces stolons, not rhizomes
- common as a greenhouse pest