Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 435 (1753).

Synonymy: Oxalis corniculata

Common name: Creeping oxalis, yellow wood-sorrel.

Description:
Herb with fibrous and branching roots, sometimes a tap root; stems erect or ascending, sometimes creeping, to 30 cm, branching, with spreading hairs; leaves cauline; petioles 3-6 cm, with spreading hairs; stipules small, connate to the petiole-base; leaflets 3, obcordate, 5-20 mm long, 5-25 mm broad, with an incision to two-fifths of their length, usually with rounded lobes, glabrous above, with a few hairs to pubescent below; peduncles axillary, not extending above the leaves, with forward-directed hairs; pedicels usually deflexed after fruiting.

Flowers 2-4 in an umbel, rarely solitary; sepals lanceolate, c. 4 mm long, with some hairs at the top to pubescent; petals yellow, c. 7 mm long.

Capsule cylindrical, 9-16 mm long, densely covered with short retrorse hairs.

	Oxalis corniculata habit, branch and leaf.
Image source: fig 387a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  Grows in gardens and parks. S.Aust.: NW, EP, SL, SE.   All mainland States.   Probably native to Europe but now cosmopolitan. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Sept. — April.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: Often mowed plants, for example those from lawns, may be somewhat different in habit.

Taxonomic notes: There is one specimen from the SE with stems partially with spreading hairs and partially with appressed antrorse hairs.

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