Oxalis drummondii
Family: Oxalidaceae
Plant Description: Stemless perennial to 20 cm high. Leaves trifoliate, 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 flowerbed 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
