Oxalis drummondii
Family: Oxalidaceae
Plant Description: Stemless perennial to 20 cm high. Leaves 3-foliate palmately compound with 2-lobed or crescent-shaped leaflets 1.5-5 cm wide. Flowers few per scape, the petals 2.5-3 cm long, violet-purple, radial. Plants grow from bulbs. Capsules cylindrical.
Plant Trivia: Endemic to Texas. Can be flower bed and garden pest.
Field Identification:
Occurrence: Common in pastures woods, stream bottoms and waste places.
Bloom Period: March-\December.
Plant Use:
Key to species of Oxalis:
- Leaves simple………………………………………………………………………O. dichondrifolia
Leaves compound………………………………………………………………………………………..2
2. Petals purple, violet………………………………………………………………………………………3
Petals yellow………………………………………………………………………………………………….4
3. Leaflets crescent-shaped…………………………………………………..O. drummondii
Leaflets suborbicular…………………………………………………………………….O. debilis
4. Leaflets, two of them, attached below tip………………………….O. frutescerns
Leaflets attached at very tip of petiole………………………………………………………5
5. Ridges of seed whitish…………………………………………………………………...O. dillenii
Ridges not whitish…………………………………………………………………..O. corniculata
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