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

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